Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Nordisk Judaistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (1992) 83-100
Keywords:
Grass, Günter,
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Weininger, Otto, Fiction
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Freytag, Gustav,
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Raabe, Wilhelm,
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Antisemitism Fiction
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Jews Fiction
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Jews Fiction
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German literature 19th century
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German literature 20th century
Abstract:
In Grass's novel "Hundejahre", the basic antisemitic stereotypes prevalent in German culture (e.g. the Jewish conspiracy and Jewish villainy) are "re-written" and reversed in order to reveal the strength of the antisemitic cultural tradition and to emphasize its absurdity. Explores antisemitic stereotypes promoted by Otto Weininger ("Geschlecht und Charakter"), Gustav Freytag ("Soll und Haben"), and Wilhelm Raabe ("Der Hungerpastor"), and their transformation in Grass's text. Points out that the novel "paradoxically attempts to refute the tenets of anti-Semitism by restoring the subterranean tradition, demonstrating by means of one eccentric work the enormity of the anti-Semitic heritage".
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