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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : European Languages and Cultures - German

Undergraduate Course: Dislocation & Identity in modern German-Jewish Literature (Ordinary) (ELCG09008)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaEuropean Languages and Cultures - German Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course introduces students to German-Jewish literature of the 20th century. It offers a broad historical perspective on the socio-cultural positioning of the German-Jewish subject, focusing on the experiences of exclusion and marginality that characterise the 'conditio judaica'. Utilising a group of texts that in turn articulate pivotal moments of upheaval, change or crisis in German-Jewish experience of the 20th century, the course provides students with a focused overview of this period up to the present day. Franz Kafka's letter to his father (1919) addresses the consequences of the German-Jewish drive for assimilation that gained momentum in the latter half of the 19th century. Peter Weiss's autobiographical novel Fluchtpunkt (1965) describes the experience of exile in Sweden during the Second World War. Rafael Seligmann's novella Rubinsteins Versteigerung (1989) epitomises the paradox of being a German-Jew in Germany after the Holocaust. Barbara Honigmann's thoughts in the autobiographical sketches of Damals, dann und danach (1999) reflect the continuing dislocation, linguistic and spatial, of contemporary German-Jewish culture. Her work also provides insight into the experience of German-Jewish women. Thematic points of emphasis throughout the course are: dominant and marginal cultures, identity and ambivalence, Heimat and exile, the language and aesthetics of abjection, family conflict and generational change, gender, anti-Semitism. A further question for discussion concerns the specific nature of German-Jewish literature; to what extent does it differ from literary modernism?

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesOpen to visiting students with fluent German and a background in literary studies
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
To provide a broad historical perspective on the socio-cultural positioning of the German-Jewish subject, focusing on the experiences of exclusion and marginality that characterise the 'conditio judaica'.
Assessment Information
1 essay, 2-2,500 words
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Mary Cosgrove
Tel: (0131 6)50 3639
Email: mary.cosgrove@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Fiona Scanlon
Tel: (0131 6)50 3646
Email: Fiona.Scanlon@ed.ac.uk
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