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On Similarity in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
Ist Teil von
New German critique, 2023-11, Vol.50 (3), p.81-92
Ort / Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Quelle
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
This essay calls for a theoretical discussion of the aesthetics and politics of comparison in contemporary German Jewish literature and beyond. It describes the tendency of recent German Jewish writers and thinkers to compare and connect the experiences of Jews to those of other minoritized groups. The essay briefly discusses several theoretical paradigms that spell out the political stakes of such comparisons, including touching tales (Leslie Adelson) and multidirectional memory (Michael Rothberg). It then draws attention to another modality of comparison that is particularly promising because of its purposive abstractness and its relevance for literary texts: similarity. Finally, the essay offers two examples of the productive use of similarity in recent German Jewish literature: Katja Petrowskaja’s
(which connects different instances of historical trauma) and Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s
(which weaves the experience of a Syrian refugee in Istanbul into a web of similar migratory movements).