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Book Die Resonanz des Exils

Download or read book Die Resonanz des Exils written by Dieter Sevin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exile and Otherness

Download or read book Exile and Otherness written by Alexander Stephan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Culture Studies, Anthropology, German Studies, History, Political Psychology, and other fields have used the concept of 'exile' in close connection with terms like migration, border crossing, identity, and transnationality. Views of a homogeneous culture and of centricity collide with ideas like multiculturalism, pluralism, creolization, and the globalization of differences. A transit-culture, inhabited by the flaneur and the nomad, is supposed to have replaced citizenship in a nation. At the same time, there can be no doubt that the experience of those writers, artists and intellectuals who were driven out of Germany and Europe by the Nazis was in many ways unique. This book investigates the exile experience in a theoretical and comparative way by exploring the possibilities and limitations of concepts like diaspora, de-localization, and transit-culture for understanding the lives and works of German and Austrian refugees from Nazi persecution. It revisits the interaction of the exiles with the culture of their host countries in light of recent debates about migration and identity studies and it analyzes texts, paintings and other methods of artistic expression which connect the experience of the refugees of 1933 with postmodern notions of de-localization, hybridity, and marginalization.

Book   sthetiken des Exils

Download or read book sthetiken des Exils written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Faces of Janus

Download or read book The Faces of Janus written by Nicole Brunnhuber and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers an interdisciplinary examination of the German-speaking exile experience in Great Britain from the beginnings of the Nazi regime to the end of the Second World War. The book examines the contingencies of cultural production for German and Austrian exiles against the historical context of British immigration and internment policies. By investigating the influence and manipulation of trends in popular British culture in the English-language exile fiction by Ernest Borneman, Robert Neumann, Ruth Feiner, Lilo Linke and George Tabori, the author illustrates how a suspect minority voiced their socio-political concerns in the dominant culture, and presents a strong case for the facilities of polylingualism in literature. The book reconstructs biographical and cultural histories of authors whose remarkable success as English-language writers may otherwise risk lingering in obscurity. Since the author traces the interaction of historical events and the personal experience of a range of writers, themes of gender-based, national and religious identities are addressed. Flexible and accessible, the book extracts meaning from the politics of popular culture and cultural exchange in the twentieth century during a period of nationalism, acute jingoism and war.

Book German speaking Exiles in Great Britain

Download or read book German speaking Exiles in Great Britain written by Ian Wallace and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance of particular British institutions which offered support and encouragement to those who had fled from Germany and Austria, and analyzes the Thomas Mann Newsletter, a refugee publication. Deals with individual refugees who were important contributors to the story of exile in Britain, and focuses on the Austrian aspect of exile in Britain, with emphasis on literature intended for Austrian children and adolescents and on the importance of the Austrian Center. Concludes with an introduction to the exile holdings at the Institute of Germanic Studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Book Roman in Englisch deutscher Perspektiven

Download or read book Roman in Englisch deutscher Perspektiven written by Susanne Stark and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novel in Anglo-German Context focuses on cross-currents and affinities between fiction written in English and fiction written in German, and the thirty-one contributors to this volume cover authors from the eighteenth century to the present day. The essays collected in this book approach the theme of Anglo-German cultural cross-fertilisation from a number of different angles. These include the reception and translation of foreign authors, the examination of exile writers, the comparative exploration of aspects which are crucial to both German, Austrian or Swiss and British or Irish novelists at a given point in time, the fictional depiction of the respective other culture, Anglo-German images in the novel, as well as the role of the novel in the curricula of German and British secondary education. The topics chosen by the contributors offer stimulating views on a wide range of subject areas, and the volume is essential reading for anyone with a broad interest in Anglo-Irish, German, Austrian and Swiss literature, the development of fiction as well as Anglo-German literary and cultural relations.

Book Reclaiming Heimat

Download or read book Reclaiming Heimat written by Jacqueline Vansant and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era.

Book Germans in Britain Since 1500

Download or read book Germans in Britain Since 1500 written by Panikos Panayi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume traces the history of German settlement through a series of essays designed to cover each period and to analyse specific aspects.

Book The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields

Download or read book The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields written by Petra Broomans and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- The Invasion of Books -- Contra-flows in Literary Journalism? Coverage of Foreign, Non-Western and Ethnic Minority Literatures in French, German, Dutch and American Newspapers, 1955-2005 -- Monsters and Blowflies. The Representation of Nynorsk and its Speakers in Three Norwegian Newspapers -- The Colour of Female Choice. Czech and Flemish Women's Magazines as Cultural Patchworks -- A New Golden Era for Finnish Poetry? Nuoren Voiman Liitto and Nihil Interit as Cultural and Literary Transmitters in the 1990s and 2000s -- In the Wake of a Nobel Prize. On Modern Icelandic Literature in Swedish1940-1969 -- Ways of Being. Familiarity with Playwrights as Expression of Taste -- Transmitter Profiles, Power Circles and Canonising Cultural Transfer. The Case of Annie Posthumus - the First Modern Scandinavist within Dutch Academia -- A Foreigner to Her Mother Tongue. Zenta Mauriņa (1897-1978) and Konstantin Raudive (1909-1974) as German-speaking Latvian Writers in Swedish Exile -- About the Authors -- Bibliography -- Index

Book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe  Russia  and Eurasia

Download or read book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe Russia and Eurasia written by Mary Zirin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 2898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Book Sex  Race  and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories

Download or read book Sex Race and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories written by M. Bostrom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.

Book Words from Abroad

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  • Author : Katja Garloff
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2005-09-01
  • ISBN : 0814335772
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Words from Abroad written by Katja Garloff and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust. When Paul Celan was charged with plagiarism in 1960, the ensuing public debate in West Germany threw the poet into a major personal crisis even though most German critics immediately came to his defense. This crisis coincided with a transformative moment in the history of Holocaust remembrance, its first generational reimagining in the wake of a number of highly publicized criminal trials. Words from Abroad takes its lead from this disjunction between public ritual and private crisis to chart the emergence of a new literary diaspora, examining German Jewish writers who were dislocated in the course of World War II and began rewriting their own displacement more than a decade after the war. The idea of diaspora had ceased to be a constructive element of Jewish culture in Germany during the nineteenth-century process of emancipation and assimilation, though this book argues that it becomes crucial in articulating the possibility of German Jewish identity after the Holocaust. Along with the works of Paul Celan, Words from Abroad examines selected German Jewish writers such as Peter Weiss and Nelly Sachs. The study of these authors is framed by theoretical reflections on the play of distance and proximity in German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust, including Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Améry, and Günther Anders. Drawing on postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, trauma theory, and psychoanalytical theory, author Katja Garloff offers an original and nuanced reading of the way in which these writers, in the wake of the Holocaust, experienced and variously created a vision of dispersion as both traumatic and productive. Words from Abroad is an important tool in investigating the works of these German Jewish writers and thinkers, but it is also a contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma and displacement itself.

Book Flight of Fantasy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil H. Donahue
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781571810021
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Flight of Fantasy written by Neil H. Donahue and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of Nazi era, many German writers claimed to have retreated into "Inner Emigration". This book presents the complexity of Inner Emigration through the analysis of individual cases of writers who, under constant pressure from a watchful dictatorship to conform and to collaborate, were caught between conscience and compromise.

Book Women in German Yearbook

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  • Author : Women in German Yearbook
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1995-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780803297852
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Women in German Yearbook written by Women in German Yearbook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in German Yearbook volume 13 opens with essays by Herta M

Book Centre Stage

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  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-12-18
  • ISBN : 9004654941
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Centre Stage written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, scholars and theatre practioners from Austria, Britain and Germany explore the current state of Austrian drama in studies of the themes, forms and concerns of some of the most important contemporary playwrights. Many of the contributions address works which have not previously been the subject of scholarly analysis. The writers discussed include: Wolfgang Bauer, Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Peter Handke, Fritz Hochwälder, Elfriede Jelinek, Jakov Lind, Felix Mitterer, Hermann Nitsch, Gerhard Roth, Werner Schwab, Marlene Steeruwitz, Peter Turrini, and the film-maker, Wim Wenders. This collection, which includes photographs and an essay on the problems of translating, will be of particular interest to teachers, students and translators of German-language drama, as well as to a wider theatre-going public.

Book The History of German Literature on Film

Download or read book The History of German Literature on Film written by Christiane Schönfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by Nazi filmmakers, and traces the role of German-language literature in exile and postwar films, across ideological boundaries in divided Germany, in New German Cinema, and in remakes and movies for cinema as well as television and streaming services in the 21st century. Having provided the narrative core to thousands of films since the late 19th century, many of German cinema's most influential masterpieces were inspired by canonical texts, popular plays, and even children's literature. Not being restricted to German adaptations, however, this book also traces the role of literature originally written in German in international film productions, which sheds light on the interrelation between cinema and key historical events. It outlines how processes of adaptation are shaped by global catastrophes and the emergence of nations, by materialist conditions, liberal economies and capitalist imperatives, political agendas, the mobility of individuals, and sometimes by the desire to create reflective surfaces and, perhaps, even art. Commercial cinema's adaptation practices have foregrounded economic interest, but numerous filmmakers throughout cinema history have turned to German-language literature not simply to entertain, but as a creative contribution to the public sphere, marking adaptation practice, at least potentially, as a form of active citizenship.

Book Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Ausl  nder

Download or read book Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Ausl nder written by Kathrin M. Bower and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to aesthetic considerations, the book concentrates on the implications of Sachs's and Auslander's poetic engagement for an "ethics of remembrance.""--BOOK JACKET.