{"product_id":"animal-vegetal-marginal-the-german-literary-grotesque-from-panizza-to-kafka-hardback-9780253071972","title":"Animal, Vegetal, Marginal; The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (Hardback) 9780253071972","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoela Jacobs (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253071972\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.585 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first monograph to focus on the neglected genre of the German literary grotesque, this book offers a timely account of the rise and fall of a genre through which modernist writers satirized the infusion of nationalism, racism, and antisemitism so effectively that they in turn became targets of such virulent persecution that the genre remained virtually unstudied until now. Reading canonical luminaries like Franz Kafka alongside more notorious contemporaries like Oskar Panizza, Joela Jacobs pieces together an astonishing case study of how a literary form that gives voice to marginalized and nonhuman perspectives helps to expose the dangers of normalizing social oppression. In addition to being a major contribution to German studies, the book is groundbreaking for interweaving insights from literary, plant, and animal studies, and as such extends the innovative interdisciplinary research program that secures Jacobs's international reputation as a rising star.\"—Susan McHugh, author of \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal\u003c\/i\u003e salvages a censored and forgotten short form whose irreverent exaggerations functioned as a fierce social critique in the first decades of the twentieth century. Across a series of engaging close readings, Jacobs carefully identifies the critical potential of these nightmarish narratives for their time—and ours. Equipped with ecocritical insights into the significance of the more-than-human world, Jacobs dives deep into these vivid depictions of vegetal eroticism, canine narrators, and other monsters who challenge normative accounts of the human. What emerges is a comprehensive historical study of a genre whose unrelenting exposure of structures of biopolitical regulation demands renewed attention today. As the first monograph on this genre of the grotesque, \u003ci\u003eAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal\u003c\/i\u003e is an event within modernist literary studies; what makes it equally eventful for animal studies, plant studies, and critical gender and sexuality studies is that it also opens important lines of inquiry into issues of belonging, kinship, and sexuality in a more-than-human world.\"—Jason Groves, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A pioneering study of an important German literary genre. . . . Joela Jacobs's command of the subject matter is impressive, indeed.\"—Peter D. G. Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eOskar Panizza: His Life and Works\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOskar Panizza and \u003c\/i\u003eThe Love Council\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\u003cbr\u003e As the first full-length study of the genre, \u003ci\u003eAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Section I: The Grotesque: A Censored Literary Genre and Its Authors\u003cbr\u003e 1. Characteristics of \u003ci\u003edie Groteske\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e2. \u003ci\u003eGrotesken\u003c\/i\u003e in a Nexus of Censorship\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Literary Network of the Marginalized\u003cbr\u003e Section II: The Vegetal: Panizza, Ewers, and Turn-of-the-Century Censorship\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Crime in Tavistock-Square\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Petition\u003cbr\u003e 6. Why Plants?\u003cbr\u003e Section III: The Animal: Panizza, Kafka, and the Modernist Crisis of the Self\u003cbr\u003e 7. From the Diary of a Dog\u003cbr\u003e 8. Investigations\/Researches of a Dog\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why Dogs?\u003cbr\u003e Section IV: The Human: Panizza, Friedlaender, and the Rise of Fascism\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Operated Jew\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Operated Goy\u003cbr\u003e 12. Why Humans?\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525705953560,"sku":"9780253071972","price":58.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/animal-vegetal-marginal-the-german-literary-grotesque-from-panizza-to-kafka-hardback-9780253071972","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}