DAAD Book Prize, German Studies Association
Scott Spector is Associate Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
"Contribute[s] many insights and food for thought in a question, the relation of culture to territory, with which we are, as recent events in Europe show only too well, still grappling."-Times Literary Supplement "A pioneering work of cultural history, whose self-reflexive and interdisciplinary approach will be of interest not only to specialists of Central European culture but also to a wider professional readership concerned with methodological and disciplinary issues."-Mary Gluck, Journal of Modern History "Working in between historical and formal literary analysis with great skill, [Spector] has produced a major contribution not just to German and German-Jewish studies but to the question of literature and formation of identity for us all."-The Nation "This admirably lucid, impressively well researched, and theoretically sophisticated book provides both a cultural history of Prague, focusing on its German-Jewish writers, and a broader context for reading Franz Kafka. It brings out the complex ways in which a 'minor' literature has a powerful if problematic political import."-Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University
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