Ethnicity and gender in Else Lasker-Schuler's "Oriental" stories: "Der Amoklaufer" ("Tschandragupta") and "Ached Bey".

In her two prose works Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads (The Nights of Tino of Baghdad, 1907) and Der Prinz yon Theben (The Prince of Thebes, 1914) Else Lasker-Schuler thematizes the connection of ethnicity, gender, and art in an imaginary Oriental setting. An examination of these two stories shows the sophistication with which she undermines any notion of unambiguous identity, whether ethnic or sexual, and the implications of her challenge to images of Jewish femininity for her conception of art and her position within the avant-garde of classical modernity. Lasker-Schuler's productive intertextual connection to Heine and her critical distance to cultural Zionism (Martin ...

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