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1 online resource (xv, 217 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 16
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Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 16.
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| Summary |
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.0. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Agency in the everyday: subversive discourses in the work of Gina Kaus -- Doris Hart at the Metropolitan Opera -- the triumph of the 'little people' -- Negotiating a home: Henry Rothschild and the Emigre experience -- A family story through letters: Dr Edith Mahler and Hans Schachter -- Carl Laemmle's proteges: everyday life in exile after escaping Nazi Germany through help from Hollywood's film mogul -- Everyday life of German-speaking refugees in wartime Ireland -- The struggle to survive: German and Austrian refugees' depiction of daily life in their Shanghai exile -- 'Libe Eltern!' -- 'Liebes Kind': letters between kindertransportees and their families as everyday life documents -- Food in exile -- Exilerfahrung des einsamen Intellektuellen -- Jean Amerys Exilerfahrung vor 1964-66 und deren Bedeutng fur sein Schreiben -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Exiles -- Germany.
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Exiles. |
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Germany. |
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Exiles -- Austria.
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Austria. |
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Refugees -- Germany.
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Refugees. |
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Refugees -- Austria.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hammel, Andrea, editor.
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Grenville, Anthony, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Exile and everyday life. Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2015] 9789004297869 (OCoLC)907631753 |
| ISBN |
9789004297913 (electronic book) |
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900429791X (electronic book) |
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9789004297869 |
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9004297863 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004297913 |
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