Kafka Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions

Name: Kafka Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions
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ISBN: 9780198158196

ISBN-10: 019815819X

ISBN-13: 9780198158196

Edition: 1996

Authors: Elizabeth Boa

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Elizabeth Boa's new study of Kafka centres on gender. Her strikingly original insights show how, in an age of reactionary hysteria, Kafka rejected patriarchy yet exploited women as literary raw material. Drawing on Kafka's letters to his fiance and to the Czech journalist, Milena Jesenska, Boa illuminates the transformation of details of everyday life into the strange yet uncannily familiar signs which are Kafka's stylistic hallmark. Kafka: Gender, Class and Race in the Letters and Fictions argues that gender cannot be isolated from other dimensions of identity. The study relates Kafka's alienating images of the male body and fascinated disgust of female sexuality to the body-culture of the…

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/27/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.43" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Abbreviations



Reading Kafka



Modernity and its Discontents: Questions of Identity



Letters from a Bachelor: Kafka's Letters to Felice Bauer



An Intercourse of Ghosts: Kafka's Letters to Milena Jesenska



The Double Taboo: The Male Body in The Judgment, The Metamorphosis, and In The Penal Colony



The Body of Literature: Kafka's Artist Stories



The Decaying Law: Discourses of Gender, Class, and Race in The Trial



Feminist Approaches to The Castle


Bibliography


Index