Foreign Stories and National Narratives: Yiddish and Fictionality in Jurek Becker’s <i>Jakob the Liar</i> and Edgar Hilsenrath’s <i>The Nazi and the Barber</i>
This article uses two examples of postwar German Jewish literature to explore the way in which these literary reflections on fictionality can also serve to subvert and complicate the national narratives that were developed in East and West Germany. The novels explored here, Jurek Becker’s...
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MDPI AG
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/3/143 |