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- Title
Negative Symbiosis?
- Authors
WOGENSTEIN, SEBASTIAN
- Abstract
This article examines central tensions in literary works dealing with German-Israeli encounters, including memorialization, Germany's purported "normalization" in the wake of its genocidal past, and the notion of a "negative symbiosis" between Germans and Jews. Katja Behrens's short story "Solomon and the Others" and Doron Rabinovici's novel Andernorts serve as examples of how literary texts question the presumed homogeneity of collective identities and explore the lives of characters who traverse the charged and uneven terrain of German-Hebrew contact zones. Particular attention is paid to the use of Hebrew in German texts and the unruly features of bilingualism in monolingually ordered environments.
- Subjects
SOLOMON &; the Others (Short story); ANDERNORTS (Book); BEHREN, Katja; RABINOVICI, Doron; BILINGUALISM
- Publication
Prooftexts, 2013, Vol 33, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0272-9601
- Publication type
Article