137pp; Gray cloth boards with titling to front & spine, "Review Copy" stamped to front pastedown, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. Study of Kafka's Orientalist discourse. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture series.

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Title

Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse

Publisher

Camden House, Columbia, SC

Publication Date

1997

ISBN 10

1571131442

ISBN 13

9781571131447

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

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Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

Goebel studies four representative works by Kafka that explore the problems of the Western representation of the Orient: his 'Description of a Struggle'; several letters to Felice Bauer, offering an interpretation of Chinese poetry in connection with the conflict between writing and Kafka's love for Felice; the canonical story 'The Great Wall of China', parodically appropriating sterotypes of China's stagnant history and authoritarian emperors for a refutation of colonialist ideas of progress; and the sequel 'An Old Manuscript', dramatising China's invasion by foreign powers and the breakdown of crosscultural communication. Elucidating these themes from a broadly comparative perspective, Goebel shows Kafka to be one of German modernism's most intriguing and self-reflective writers on the Orient.
ROLF J. GOEBEL is Professor of German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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ROLF J. GOEBEL is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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