Whose Body Is It Anyway? Hermaphrodites, Gays, and Jews in N. O. Body’s Germany
“N. O. Body” is a most appropriate pseudonym for Karl M. Baer (1885–1956) to have used when he sat down to pen his autobiography, which first appeared in 1907,¹ for being “nobody” was his way of seeing his body. It was doubly alienated (he writes “nobody” in English rather than German) because it wa...
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| Published in | Jewish Masculinities p. 138 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Indiana University Press
18.07.2012
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| Summary: | “N. O. Body” is a most appropriate pseudonym for Karl M. Baer (1885–1956) to have used when he sat down to pen his autobiography, which first appeared in 1907,¹ for being “nobody” was his way of seeing his body. It was doubly alienated (he writes “nobody” in English rather than German) because it was male as well as female, Jewish as well as German. This is how he imagined his earlier life raised to be a woman, Martha Baer, in a Jewish family in imperial Germany. But it is “nobody” that Odysseus tricks the Cyclops into answering when asked |
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| ISBN: | 0253002133 9780253002136 |