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Bestiarium Judaicum : Unnatural Histories of the Jews / Jay Geller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823275595
  • 9780823275618
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.892409
LOC classification:
  • DS143 .G353 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- contents -- abbreviations -- Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum -- chapter 1. "O beastly Jews" -- chapter 2. Name That Varmint -- chapter 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps -- chapter 4. "If you could see her through my eyes . . ." -- chapter 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I -- chapter 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II -- chapter 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/ New World, or Talk to the Animals -- chapter 8. Dogged by Destiny -- afterword. "It's clear as the light of day" -- acknowledgments -- notes -- references -- index
Summary: Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals-pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories? Focusing on the nonhuman-animal constructions of primarily Germanophone authors, including Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, and Gertrud Kolmar, Jay Geller expands his earlier examinations (On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions and The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity) of how such writers drew upon representations of Jewish corporeality in order to work through their particular situations in Gentile modernity. From Heine's ironic lizards to Kafka's Red Peter and Siodmak's Wolf Man, Bestiarium Judaicum brings together Jewish cultural studies and critical animal studies to ferret out these writers' engagement with the bestial answers upon which the Jewish and animal questions converged and by which varieties of the species "Jew" were identified.
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Frontmatter -- contents -- abbreviations -- Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum -- chapter 1. "O beastly Jews" -- chapter 2. Name That Varmint -- chapter 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps -- chapter 4. "If you could see her through my eyes . . ." -- chapter 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I -- chapter 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II -- chapter 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/ New World, or Talk to the Animals -- chapter 8. Dogged by Destiny -- afterword. "It's clear as the light of day" -- acknowledgments -- notes -- references -- index

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Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals-pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories? Focusing on the nonhuman-animal constructions of primarily Germanophone authors, including Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, and Gertrud Kolmar, Jay Geller expands his earlier examinations (On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions and The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity) of how such writers drew upon representations of Jewish corporeality in order to work through their particular situations in Gentile modernity. From Heine's ironic lizards to Kafka's Red Peter and Siodmak's Wolf Man, Bestiarium Judaicum brings together Jewish cultural studies and critical animal studies to ferret out these writers' engagement with the bestial answers upon which the Jewish and animal questions converged and by which varieties of the species "Jew" were identified.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)