The setting of Kafka’s “Jackals and Arabs” is a bleak beginning as it signifies a crisis of location. Spatially speaking, the setting is abrupt and does not introduce the place of action in the traditional sense. Readers, in other words, are denied full access to necessary details about the nature of the jackals’ spatial origins. Even though the narrator in Kafka’s text mentions that “a jackal howled in the distance,” readers as well as the story’s narrator are incapable of spatially defining that “distance” and are soon taken by surprise when they feel engulfed by a swarming pack of jackals. The inability to define distance, here, is tied to the ambigious meaning of Jewish identity in the story.

العنوان

The Explicator

الناشر

Taylor & Francis

بلد الناشر

المملكة المتحدة

Indexing

Scopus

معامل التأثير

None

نوع المنشور

Both (Printed and Online)

المجلد

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السنة

2019

الصفحات

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