Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (2010) 76-101
Keywords:
Stoker, Bram,
;
Kafka, Franz,
Abstract:
In the 19th century, German scientists related Jews and Gypsies to one another and viewed them as representing Europe's Orientalized Eastern regions, which threatened to overtake the West. Analyzes Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and two short texts by Kafka as reflecting excluding semantics and practices, which developed to keep Eastern European Jews and Gypsies at bay. Identifies Dracula as a "Jewish" character, who incarnates antisemitic prejudice. In the novel, the Gypsies are presented as a natural resource, instrumentalized by "Vampyre-like Jewish evil". Kafka's texts, on the other hand, bring about a grotesque, carnivalistic convergence of the connotations of Eastern Europe, Jews, and Gypsies, and deconstructs the connotations.
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