Download or read book Exile and Everyday Life written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile and Everyday Life focusses on the everyday life experience of refugees fleeing National Socialism in the 1930s and 1940s as well as the representation of this experience in literature and culture. The contributions in this volume show experiences of loss, strategies of adaptation and the creation of a new identity and life. It covers topics such as Exile in Shanghai, Ireland, the US and the UK, food in exile, the writers Gina Kaus, Vicki Baum and Jean Améry, refugees in the medical profession and the creative arts, and the Kindertransport to the UK.
Download or read book At Home in Exile written by Helga M Griffin and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a girl’s construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called ‘my spiritual home’. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga’s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted.
Download or read book War Exile Everyday Life written by Renata Jambrešić Kirin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on a Life in Exile written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2020 Shelf Unbound Notable Indie Award A collection of essays by novelist J.F. Riordan, Reflections on a Life in Exile is easy to pick up, and hard to put down. By turns deeply spiritual and gently comic, these brief meditations range from the inconveniences of modern life to the shifting nature of grief. Whether it's an unexpected revelation from a trip to the hardware store, a casual encounter with a tow-truck driver, the changing seasons, or a conversation with a store clerk grieving for a dog, J. F. Riordan captures and magnifies the passing beauty of the ordinary and the extraordinary that lingers near the surface of daily life.
Download or read book War Exile Justice and Everyday Life 1936 1946 written by Sandra Ott and published by Center for Basque Studies Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays primarily by historians of the Basque Country, France, Spain, and Germany on the themes of war, exile, justice, and everyday life, 1936-1946
Download or read book Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing written by Andrea Hammel and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of the novels written by five German-speaking women - Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen - who had to flee National Socialist Central Europe. Gmeyner, Spiel, Wied and Zur Mühlen found refuge in Britain and thus added - together with male colleagues such as Stefan Zweig and Robert Neumann - an important but rarely investigated new dimension to the British literary landscape. The aim of this study is to reassess the women refugee writers' narrative strategies and integrate their work within feminist literary studies. The author investigates the five writers' narrativisation of everyday life, used to subvert the dominant discourse, and their portrayal of the intersection between class, racial and gender oppression. She also shows their innovative ways of picturing the gendered tension between the experiences of exile and exile as a modernist metaphor as well as their search for ways to refute the Nationalist Socialist rewriting of history. The book situates the novels within the theoretical discussions surrounding exile studies, social history and women's writing.
Download or read book Exile written by Anthony Jarrell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for anyone wondering if theres more to life. This book is for anyone whos ever been turned off by religion or church. This book is for anyone whos ever been made to feel like they arent enough. Exile is a memoir of sorts, but it is more so meant to be a conversation starter for the reader. This book is an invitation to ask yourself hard questions. It is about experiencing a relationship with Jesus. It is about seeing life through a new perspective. This book is not written by an expert, but it is written by a guy simply sharing his experiences. Stories of failure, abuse, depression, success, fear, pain, loss, mistakes, hope, dreams, culture, traveling and more are recounted. Fans of Blue Like Jazz will appreciate the faith journey storytelling approach. Anthony spent most of his life feeling like an exile feeling as if he had no hope or didnt belong even after trying to check all the boxes of what he thought made him a good Christian. This is a story of seeking to experience faith as real. This is a story about how Jesus came into Anthonys life and changed everything. This book is an invitation to allow Jesus to change everything for you, too.
Download or read book Exile and the Jews written by Nancy E. Berg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to exile from the biblical period to our modern day gathers texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia. Ordered along multiple arcs—from universal to particular, collective to individual, and mythic-symbolic to prosaic everyday living—the chapters present different facets of exile: as human condition, in history and life, in holiday rituals, in language, as penance and atonement, as internalized experience, in relation to the Divine Presence, and more. By illuminating the multidimensional nature of “exile”—political, philosophical, religious, psychological, and mythological—widely divergent evaluations of Jewish life in the Diaspora emerge. The word “exile” and its Hebrew equivalent, galut, evoke darkness, bleakness—and yet the condition offers spiritual renewal and engenders great expressions of Jewish cultural creativity: the Babylonian Talmud, medieval Jewish philosophy, golden age poetry, and modern Jewish literature. Exile and the Jews will engage students, academics, and general readers in contemplating immigration, displacement, evolving identity, and more.
Download or read book Exiles written by James Joyce and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Exiles" (A Play in Three Acts) by James Joyce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Refugees of the Revolution written by Diana Allan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four generations—as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their collective culture in exile. Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan––pragmatically and speculatively—for the future. She gives unprecedented attention to credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering, emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local pressures. What would it mean for the generations born in exile to return to a place they never left? Allan addresses this question by rethinking the relationship between home and homeland. In so doing, she reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents new possibilities for the future of the community.
Download or read book Into Exile written by Elin Toona Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation to Siberia. "INTO EXILE" is Elin's personal account of the horrors she and her family experienced during WWII followed by an even more confusing peacetime in class-conscious post-war England while adult "DP's" and Elin struggled to find their identity.
Download or read book Africans and the Exiled Life written by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century their reasons for and pattern of migration have been largely influenced by globalization. Globalization, by its very nature, cuts across virtually every aspect of the human life and human society. And especially in the United States, African immigrants are subject to the undercurrents of globalization – particularly in the areas of culture, religion, interpersonal relationships, and the assimilation and acculturation process. Relying on the vast theoretical and practical experience of academics and public intellectuals across three continents, this book succinctly interrogates some of the pull/push factors of migration, the challenges of globalizing forces, and the daily reality of relocation. The everyday reality and experiences of blacks in the diaspora (Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe) are also part of the discourse and the subject matters are approached from different perspectives and paradigms. Africans and the Exiled Life, therefore, is a compelling and rich addition to the ongoing global debate and understanding of migration and exile.
Download or read book Women s Experiences of the Second World War written by Mark J. Crowley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Download or read book Living in Two Worlds written by Else Behrend-Rosenfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives during the Second World War. While their children left for England just before war broke out, and Siegfried soon followed, Else Behrend was unable to obtain her visa in time, and remained in Germany. This volume includes Else's account of her years of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship, and of her life underground in Berlin, before her eventual daring escape to Switzerland on foot in 1944. Her dramatic story is presented alongside Siegfried's account of his very different experience, living penniless and in isolation in England, as well as some of her letters to her close friend and confidante, Eva. Complemented by QR codes that allow readers to listen to Else's own voice from her 1963 BBC interviews. Published in English for the first time, Living in Two Worlds offers an unforgettable and moving insight into the impact of the Second World War on everyday life.
Download or read book Purity and Exile written by Liisa H. Malkki and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-08-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how categories of identity such as "Hutu" and "Tuts" produced through violence and exile. In 1972 the Burundi army, controlled by t Tutsis, responded to an attempted Hutu rebellion with mass killings of the Hutu The author conducted a year of anthropological field research in Western Tanzani among two groups of Hutu refugees who had fled the killings. One refugee group Kigoma township and the other in the isolated Mishamo refugee camp. The town refugees tended to seek ways of assimilating and inhabiting multiple shifting id contrast to the camp refugees who continually engaged in an impassioned reconstr of their history as a people. Ethnic traits ascribed by social scientists and were freely borrowed to assert cultural difference in this process of identity r In highlighting the different responses to exile in the two refugee groups, this against the assumption that displacement erodes collective identity and shows th possible for refugees in camps to locate their identities within their very disp Mishamo, the refugee camp itself functioned as a spatial and symbolic site for i political and moral community of Hutu.
Download or read book Love and Exile written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer has attracted an enormous following and received universal critical acclaim, culminating on the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. His compelling stories and novels, which are steeped in the tradition of Polish-Jewish culture, are remarkable for their insight, humanity, wisdom and humour. Singer, now in his eightieth year, reveals these same qualities in a highly personal account of the formative period of his life in Poland and the United States. Love and Exile traces Singer's intellectual, artistic and emotional development over a period of thirty years . The author tells us in the introduction, 'The Beginning', that he can vividly remember the time when he was only three and growing up in the Orthodox atmosphere of his father's home where rational argument was very much a part of everyday life. It is clear from 'The Beginning' and the first section of the memoir, 'A Little Boy in Search of God', that Singer was an unusually intelligent child who read avidly and constantly questioned the tenets of the Jewish faith. His older brother, Joshua, encouraged him in his search for enlightenment and neither of them seems to have been overpowered by their father's position as a Rabbi. In this colourful portrait of his youth, we sense the tension in Singer's personality: he was spiritually rooted in the Middle Ages but also a heretic, fascinated by magic, spirits and dybbuks. Many of the thoughts he currently holds on God and literature originated from this phase of his life. He wished to transform the sentimental, rather ponderous tradition of Yiddish writing by injecting it with passion and a sense of reality. In 'A Young man in Search of Love, Singer describes the hand-to-mouth existence he led in Warsaw, where he hoped to establish himself as a writer. He creates a powerful impression of the political and artistic atmosphere of the period. He managed to survive on the meager earnings as a journalist and frequented the Writer's Club where he became involved in the highly-charged debates between Communists, Socialists and Fascists. The eager enthusiasm of the young Singer gave way to disillusion. He continued to pray and study, but lived like a libertine, anxious to experience the company of women and the pleasure of sex. In order to escape Nazis and emigrate to Palestine, he agreed to a marriage of convenience. His plans then foundered and 'Lost in America' reveals Singer at his most melancholy and confused. His father had died, Hitler was on the verge of obtaining power, and Singer's emotional life was in turmoil. Eventually he was granted permission to joint his brother, who was at this stage the more respected writer, in the United States. Instead of experiencing a sense of liberation, he suffered from feelings of alienation and doubt. It was a time of crisis when he appeared to drift, unable to derive comfort from his faith and having yet to find his voice as a writer. The memoir, set against a backcloth of great political upheaval in Europe, is characterized by a sense of urgency and personal discovery. Singer's recollections are so vividly evoked, his philosophical and religious analysis so lucidly expressed, the reader is on no doubt that this is a very special autobiography. Love and Exile is a fascinating exploration of the mind and development of one of the greatest mastres of fiction. It is written with humour and affection; it is always direct and accessible - and constantly entertaining.
Download or read book Towards Exile written by Giarc Sugref and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems describe a personal journey. They are staging posts in a life marked by travel and experience, love and pain.
