{"product_id":"the-space-of-words-jennifer-m-hoyer-9781571139856","title":"The Space of Words: Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs","description":"A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based entirely on her postwar poems. Such an isolated approach to her complex body of work is increasingly historically problematic; it is also at odds with Sachs's generally cyclical poetic process.\u003cbr\u003e In \"The Space of Words,\" Jennifer Hoyer offers the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed prewar poetry and prose, as well as the first analysis that examines structural and thematic ties between the prewar works and the Nobel Prize-winning postwar poetry. Through close readings of both Sachs's prewar and postwar works, Hoyer reveals a diasporic rather than exilic conception of the landscape of language, a position of constant wandering rather than static longing for return. This diasporic poetics promotes the intellectual and linguistic power of the wanderer and opens new insights into Sachs's essentialsignificance as a Holocaust poet and a twentieth-century German-Jewish writer wary of the link of literary language to geopolitics and the narrative of nations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jennifer M. Hoyer is Assistant Professor of German at theUniversity of Arkansas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer M. Hoyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571139850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571139856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Camden House (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Jennifer M. Hoyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991615373567,"sku":"9781571139856","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65de5c46-ba49-437d-b798-b25657e798b6.jpg?v=1683311280","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-space-of-words-jennifer-m-hoyer-9781571139856","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}