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This book addresses an important and timely subject: the question of world citizenship in the wake of the various shifts in power after 1989.Time and again, cultural critics of the late twentiethcentury returned to the German events as events of world-historical significance that have shaped the way they make us think about common humanity. And yet, there is no in-depth study of how this looks from a German literary perspective.This shift of the debate to German history and German literature makes Kim s book a worthwhile addition to the widespread debates around cosmopolitanism. John K. Noyes, author of<i>Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism</i>

Cosmopolitan Parables is an insightful exploration of the idea of cosmopolitanism, specifically in the works of select German-language writers. Kim provides detailed information on the authors and their literary production, and then proceeds to offer passionate and deeply thoughtful analyses of select texts with regard to the main focus of the study. This is an original contribution to a critical debate in the humanities. --Nina Berman, author of German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989 This book addresses an important and timely subject: the question of world citizenship in the wake of the various shifts in power after 1989. Time and again, cultural critics of the late twentieth century returned to the German events as events of world-historical significance that have shaped the way they make us think about common humanity. And yet, there is no in-depth study of how this looks from a German literary perspective. This shift of the debate to German history and German literature makes Kim's book a worthwhile addition to the widespread debates around cosmopolitanism. --John K. Noyes, author of Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism Parables for World Citizenship: Entangling Memories of Trauma in Contemporary Germany isan insightful exploration of the idea of cosmopolitanism, specifically in the works of select German-language writers.Kim provides detailed information on the authors and their literary production, and then proceeds to offer passionate and deeply thoughtful analyses of select texts with regard to the main focus of the study.This is an original contribution to a critical debate in the humanities. Nina Berman, author ofGerman Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989

-Cosmopolitan Parables is an insightful exploration of the idea of cosmopolitanism, specifically in the works of select German-language writers. Kim provides detailed information on the authors and their literary production, and then proceeds to offer passionate and deeply thoughtful analyses of select texts with regard to the main focus of the study. This is an original contribution to a critical debate in the humanities.- --Nina Berman, author of German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989

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David D. Kim is an assistant professor of German at UCLA.

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