Artistry in Native American Myths

Karl Kroeber

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• This challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, repres... Lees meer

Between Redemption and Doom

Noah Isenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in liter... Lees meer

The Inveterate Dreamer

Ilan Stavans

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue--from German and Russian t... Lees meer

The Exquisite Corpse

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group--the foremost avant-gardists of their time--participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded... Lees meer

Crack Wars

Avital Ronell

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts | nr. 11
• Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine,... Lees meer

Germany's Colonial Pasts

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies... Lees meer

The Jews and Germany

Enzo Traverso

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts | nr. 14
• The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the be... Lees meer

Sojourners

John Borneman, Jeffrey M Peck

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of [German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience.... Lees meer

The Nation Without Art

Margaret Olin

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art--and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be n... Lees meer

The Future of a Negation

Alain Finkielkraut

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust--and on Holocaust denial--from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and infl... Lees meer

Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question

Jonathan Judaken

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question examines the image of "the Jew" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the inte... Lees meer

The Imaginary Jew

Alain Finkielkraut

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions... Lees meer

Inscribing the Other

Sander L Gilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts | nr. 1
• Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who h... Lees meer

Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• This edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged prim... Lees meer

Man of Ashes

Salomon Isacovici, Juan Manuel Rodriguez

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "A poignant, groundbreaking memoir that links the Holocaust and its aftermath to the safe haven that opened for camp survivors in Latin America at mid... Lees meer

Impossible Missions?

Nina Berman

• Hardcover | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• This study of the German presence in Africa in the modern period exposes forms of cultural domination that derive from a philosophy of progress and "g... Lees meer

Atlas of a Tropical Germany

Zafer Senocak

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "Germany long ago became part of us German Turks," Zafer Senocak observes. "Are we also a part of Germany?" Gathered here for the first time in Englis... Lees meer

Opera

Michael Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• "A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century opera... Lees meer

Germany's Colonial Pasts

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies... Lees meer

A Life in Letters

Max Horkheimer

• Hardcover | Texts and Contexts
• One of the central figures in modern thought, Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was the director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Fra... Lees meer

Budapest Diary

Susan Rubin Suleiman

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her r... Lees meer

Singer's Typewriter and Mine

Ilan Stavans

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, ... Lees meer

Book of the Sphinx

Willis Goth Regier

• Paperback | Engels | Texts and Contexts
• Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to ... Lees meer