Physical Description
xi, 243 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History
PART I : REPRESENTING THE SHOAH AT THE FRONTIER
1. The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR
2. Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? On the Frontier between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representations of the Holocaust in Some Newer and Older Films
PART II : DISEASES AND BOUNDARIES
3. Smoking Jews on the Frontier
4. A French Frontier: Proust's Nose
5. A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and "A Country Doctor"
6. Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation
PART III : JEWISH BODIES ON THE MULTICULTURAL FRONTIER
7. "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature
ISBN
0312295324
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-234) and index.
Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History -- -- PART I : REPRESENTING THE SHOAH AT THE FRONTIER -- 1. The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR -- 2. Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? On the Frontier between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representations of the Holocaust in Some Newer and Older Films -- -- PART II : DISEASES AND BOUNDARIES -- 3. Smoking Jews on the Frontier -- 4. A French Frontier: Proust's Nose -- 5. A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and "A Country Doctor" -- 6. Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation -- -- PART III : JEWISH BODIES ON THE MULTICULTURAL FRONTIER -- 7. "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature
