Description:
In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature (and philosophy) to use love between individuals as a metaphor for group relations.
Brief description: Katja Garloff is Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. She is the author of Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers.
Review Quotes:
Garloff's main insight, and one that bears productive and fascinating analytic fruit, is that tracing the rhetoric of "love" can lead scholars toward a more nuanced understanding of the intricacies and difficulties of Jewish assimilation in modern German culture.... This book should be an essential read for anyone interested in Jewish-Gentile relations in modern German literature.
-- "German Studies Review"