Franz Kafka the Jewish Patient

by Gilman, Sander L.

• ISBN13: 9780415911771
• ISBN10: 041591177X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is a book of many firsts--the first wide-ranging study of Kafka from the standpoint of the history of the body; the first attempt to understand Kafka's writing through turn-of-the-century discourse about the Jewish body; the first attempt to write a history of the period's debates about ritual slaughter and animal rights; and the first attempt to relate nineteenth-century myths about Jewishness and illness to the treatment of Jews in the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
On Difference, Language, and Mice	p. 1
Kafka's Body in the Mirror of His Culture	p. 41
Males on Trial	p. 101
Tuberculosis as a Test Case	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 229
Appendix: Official Correspondence about Kafka's Illness	p. 245
Notes	p. 285
Index	p. 319
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