Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse

by Rolf J. Goebel and Professor emeritus Rolf J. Goebel

Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

Goebel studies four representative works by Kafka that explore the problems of the Western representation of the Orient: his 'Description of a Struggle'; several letters to Felice Bauer, offering an interpretation of Chinese poetry in connection with the conflict between writing and Kafka's love for Felice; the canonical story 'The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131442
• ISBN13: 9781571131447
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"