Animal, Vegetal, Marginal
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Animal, Vegetal, Marginal

The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka

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Animal, Vegetal, Marginal

The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka

About this book

Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's Reichs, the genre of die Groteske, or the German literary grotesque, sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers with its irreverent comedy and critique. At the same time, its authors were ruthlessly censored for their satire of society, leaving die Groteske virtually unknown today.

As the first full-length study of the genre, Animal, Vegetal, Marginal recovers this short prose form, which draws on the perspectives of marginalized animals, plants, and individuals to challenge what it means to be human. Author Joela Jacobs traces the development of the genre and its variations from the work of Oskar Panizza, Hanns Heinz Ewers, and Salomo Friedlaender to Franz Kafka.

Animal, Vegetal, Marginal shows how marginalized and nonhuman voices mounted resistance against the rise of the biopolitical structures underpinning nationalism, racism, and antisemitism in the decades leading up to the Second World War.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Section 1: The Grotesque: A Censored Literary Genre and Its Authors
  9. Section 2: The Vegetal: Panizza, Ewers, and Turn-of-the-Century Censorship
  10. Section 3: The Animal: Panizza, Kafka, and the Modernist Crisis of the Self
  11. Section 4: The Human: Panizza, Friedlaender, and the Rise of Fascism
  12. Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author