Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic.

Making Law Work Chinese Laws in Context

Tracy C Barrett; David Cheng Chang; Sherman Cochran; Xiaojia Hou; Paola Iovene; Justin Jacobs; Amy Kardos; Soon Keong Ong; Judd Kinzley; Peter Lavelle

Cochran, Sherman; Pickowicz, Paul G.

Paul Pickowicz; Sherman Cochran

Cornell University East Asia Program

Cornell East Asia Series

Cornell East Asia series, no. 146, Ithaca, N.Y, c2010

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3), Ithaca, 2011

United States, United States of America

Ithaca, NY, 2011

1, 2011-03-31

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<p>In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garlofftraces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust.<br></p><p>Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion backgrounds. These more recent writers include Benjamin Stein, Lena Gorelik, and Katja Petrowskaja. Throughout the book, Garloff asks what exactly marks a given text as Jewish—the author's identity, intended audience, thematic concerns, or stylistic choices—and reflects on existing definitions of Jewish literature.<br></p>