"The space of words" exile and diaspora in the works of Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz <I>Heimat</I> for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hoyer, Jennifer Miller, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House 2014.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42061064*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "An Stelle von Heimat": an introduction
  • Biography of the poet: "a frail woman must do it"
  • Wandering and words, wandering in words
  • Sach's Merlin the Sorcerer: reconfiguring the myth as plural
  • Poetic space after the abyss
  • Israel is not only land: diasporic poetry
  • Relearning to listen: Sachs's poem cycle "Dein Leib im rauch durch die Luft".