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.

Title

The Explicator

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publisher Country

United Kingdom

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

None

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

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Year

2019

Pages

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