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Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic Social Classes & Economic Disparity ; Social Science comes a bold new YAKafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English). Indeed, this book demonstrates that cultural assimilation and bodily transformation in Kafka's work are impossible without passage through a state of being "Negro." Kafka represents this passage in various waysfrom