Exile Studies – serie
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18 produkter
Languages of Exile
Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature
Av Axel Englund, Anders Olsson
Häftad, 2013
1084 kr
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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of linguistic difference. Literary …
Dynamics of Forced Female Migration from Czechoslovakia to Britain, 1938–1950
Häftad, 2019
868 kr
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Awarded the Honorary Silver Medal of Jan MasarykThe study of Czechoslovak women refugees in Britain is noticeably missing from current research and Anglo-Czechoslovak historiography. This book explores the diverse experiences, dilemmas and contributions to Britain of these women within a …
Roads Less Traveled
German-Jewish Exile Experiences in Kenya, 1933–1947
Häftad, 2019
748 kr
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Before Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, the fate of German-Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed. The film, based on the autobiographical work of Stefanie Zweig, tells the story of the Zweig family, who escaped the perils of Nazism and found …
Anton Walbrook
A Life of Masks and Mirrors
Av James Downs
Häftad, 2020
895 kr
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«In this first Walbrook biography, Downs perfectly captures the private story and the public persona of a greatly underexplored performer, combining facts, such as when Walbrook first obtained his trademark moustache, with deeper textual analysis of his screen work. An excellent read for any fans …
Kindertransport in Literature
Reimagining Experience
Häftad, 2022
814 kr
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«In this insightful book, Stephanie Homer interrogates how different genre conventions (memoir, autobiographical fiction and novels) influence the representation of the Kindertransport. Her theoretical approach is sophisticated, her selection of texts judicious and representative. Homer’s …
Women Writing Home
Heimat and Belonging in Exile Writing after 1933
Av Angharad Mountford, Andrea Hammel
Häftad, 2024
739 kr
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Women writers offer us rich and diverse perspectives on exile, yet they remain relatively unexplored in the scholarship. This book aims to address this omission by illuminating the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer, Gabriele Tergit, Ruth Feiner …
Innocence and Experience
Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain
Av Charmian Brinson, Anna Nyburg
Häftad, 2023
755 kr
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«With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an inspiring and timely intervention into the fields of exile and childhood studies, demonstrating just how …
Vanished Lands
Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature
Häftad, 2023
919 kr
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«Dr. Laima Vincė Sruoginis, an established author, academic, and life-long part of the North American Lithuanian diaspora, courageously faces Lithuania’s difficult historical legacy in her ground-breaking book. She researched her community’s refugee ancestors, drawing both from personal interviews …
I Went to England
A British Journal, 1935-1940. By Alfred Kerr
Av Alan Bance
Häftad, 2024
697 kr
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Forced to flee Germany, the eminent drama critic, poet and fiercely vocal anti-Nazi journalist, Alfred Kerr, settled in London in 1935 and became deeply attached to the calm and decency he found in the «island people».With much dry wit and some perplexity, his journal, translated here from German …
Heritage, Connection, Writing
Conversations with North American Lithuanian Diaspora Writers
Av Laima Vincė
Häftad, 2026
919 kr
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My previous book in the Exile Studies series, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature, explored the collective intergenerational trauma of the past. This companion volume, Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with North American Lithuanian …
From Berlin to Sydney
The Weintraubs Syncopators’ Jazz Legacy (1924–1940)
Häftad, 2026
579 kr
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“Albrecht Dümling’s rich documentation of this groundbreaking Berlin jazz band with its sensational show power is both a moving testament to the impudent creativity of youth and a warning against timeless strains of bigotry and terror.” — Alan Lareau, Professor Emeritus of German, University of …
Safe House Down Under
Jewish Refugees from Czechoslovakia in Australia 1938–1944
Av Anna Rosenbaum, Franziska Meyer
Häftad, 2017
412 kr
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After the demise of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, the Jewish population fell victim to Nazi persecution. Hoping to find a safe haven elsewhere in the world, some Czechoslovak Jews turned to Australia to seek refuge. This book focuses on their struggles to survive in life-threatening situations and …
Disenchanted Europeans
Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura and Postwar Reformulations of the West
Av Łukasz Mikołajewski, Franziska Meyer
Häftad, 2018
1077 kr
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As Europe experienced tumultuous change after the Second World War, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski (1893–1969) and Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), discussed and redefined their ideas of the continent in the pages of Kultura, the Polish émigré review. Highlighting the changes in their writings …
Vanished Musicians
Jewish Refugees in Australia
Häftad, 2016
426 kr
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About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultural …
Faces of Janus
English-language Fiction by German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-1945
Av Nicole Brunnhuber, Alexander Stephan
Häftad, 2005
961 kr
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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 …
Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing
The novels of Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Muehlen
Av Andrea Hammel, Alexander Stephan
Häftad, 2008
1050 kr
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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 – …
Exile and Otherness
New Approaches to the Experience of the Nazi Refugees
Häftad, 2005
785 kr
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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 …
Double Exile
Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945
Av Tibor Frank
Häftad, 2009
752 kr
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This is a social history of refugees escaping Hungary after the Bolshevik-type revolution of 1919, the ensuing counterrevolution, and the rise of anti-Semitism. Largely Jewish and German before World War I, the Hungarian middle class was torn by the disastrous war, the partitioning of Hungary in …
