Kafka's Blues

Mark Christian Thompson

earliest edition we have, 2016 Northwestern University Press, 2016 hardcover 184 pages

Kafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English). Indeed, this book demonstrates that cultural assimilation and bodily transformation in Kafka's work are impossible without passage through a state of being "Negro." Kafka represents this...

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Kafka's Blues edition · 2016 · Northwestern University Press · 9780810132870
Kafka's Blues paperback · 2016 · Northwestern University Press · 184 pages · 9780810132856
Kafka's Blues hardcover · 2016 · Northwestern University Press · 184 pages · 9780810132863

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