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Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions
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Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions Hardcover - 1996

by Elizabeth Boa

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Boa's new study of Kafka relates gender to other facets of identity. She shows how Kafka, while exploiting such stereotypes as the New Woman, the Magna Mater, the Whore, and the assimilating Jew for literary raw material, undermined these stereotypes and rejected patriarchal attitudes of his period. Boa places Kafka's alienating images of the male body and fascinated disgust of female sexuality in context with the militaristic, racist, gender, and class ideologies of the early twentieth century. She draws on Kafka's letters to his fiance and to the Czech journalist, Milena, to illuminate how he transformed the details of this reactionary world into the strange signs and devices which assure his place in the modernist canon.

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Elizabeth Boa's new study of Kafka centres on gender. It shows how, in an age of reactionary hysteria, Kafka rejected patriarchy yet exploited women as literary raw material. Drawing on Kafka's letters to his fiancee 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 early twentieth century and to interfusing militaristic, racist, gender, and class ideologies. This is the context too for the stereotypes of the New Woman, the massive Matriarch, the lower-class seductress, and the assimilating Jew. The book explores Kafka's exploitation yet subversion of such stereotypes through the brilliant literary devices which assure his place in the modernist canon.

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  • Title Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions
  • Author Elizabeth Boa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford, England
  • Date 1996-06-27
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780198158196 / 019815819X
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.72 x 1.09 in (20.22 x 14.53 x 2.77 cm)
  • Reading level 1490
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Gender identity in literature, Sex in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95049060
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • New York Review of Books, 02/10/2005, Page 4
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Oxford : Clarendon, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 304 pages, 22.5 cm. Contents; 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 -- Index. Subjects; Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Political and social views. Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Correspondence. Authors, Austrian Correspondence 20th century. Gender identity in literature. Sex in literature. Social classes in literature. Jews in literature. Languages & Literatures.
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