@article{2016,title={EAST AS A FANTASTIC IMAGE IN DER PRINZ VON THEBEN BY ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER},abstractNode={Else Lasker-Schüler has a special place in German literature with her bohemian life, avant-garde clothing, naive but tenacious personality. For this Jewish woman author, who has been brought up in a Christian milieu, the East is a fantastic image, a fairy tale country, or the geography where her roots trace back and that shapes her personality. In Germany at the beginning of 20. century, clothing like an eastern is not only the symbolisation of her difference, but also a revolt against alienation of Jews. This identity, shaped by the eastern tales she has used to listen since her childhood, is both a mainstay to lean on against the hardships of her authorship life and acted as a shelter to stay away from her sorrows and treat her wounds. Her book, Der Prinz von Theben which tells the story of the East abstracting it from its reality through exotic and erotic images, was published in 1914. The author, who identifies herself with the Egyptian prince Joseph whose story is told in sacred t},author={Semran CENGİZ},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}