With this translation of the essay Harpaja lezorech negia ("Let go to touch") published in Hebrew in 2005, for which he wrote the "portraits" anew, one of Dan Miron's works appears in German for the first time. Here, Dan Miron reflects on the topic the specific, but not necessarily uniform, character of the overall complex of Jewish literatures. Instead of merging the polyphonic and heterogeneous phenomenon into a supposedly coherent national literature, he advocates thinking in terms of a plurality of Jewish textual culture. Instead of starting from a tradition and a canon, Miron suggests speaking of entanglements, interdependence and a literary "touch." With this approach, Miron succeeds in examining the very different Jewish literary traditions of the diaspora and at the same time those in to interpret plural Israeli literature as one voice in a large Jewish choir. Just a close look at the entanglements of multilingualism, difference and plurality, but not the popular or scientific insinuation of unity and uniformity, makes it possible to do justice to Jewish literatures in terms of literature as well as literary and intellectual.
- ISBN10 3525350953
- ISBN13 9783525350959
- Publish Date 21 November 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
- Format Paperback
- Pages 239
- Language German