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Kafka and the east: the case for cultural construction.(writer Franz Kafka)(Critical Essay)

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From: Symposium
Date: 20020101
Author:Goebel, Rolf J.

IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, I take up arguments I have presented elsewhere about Kafka's ironic deconstruction of orientalist discourse, colonial ideology, and the European modernist's ability to maintain a hermeneutic dialogue with the authenticity of non-Western cultural truths. (1) If there is any purpose in reiterating my arguments here, it is because I welcome the opportunity to present them (with modifications and some self-criticism thrown in) side by side with those of scholars who focus on Kafka's attitude toward the East in terms of metaphysical analogies and literary ...

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