Screen LibraryThe exile and return of writers from East-Central Europe : a compendium /
This first comparative study of writers who fled from both the Nazi and Communist dictatorships in East-Central Europe includes interpretations of individual trajectories, literary works, and exile literary cultures. A historical and theoretical introduction provides an overview of the events and st...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This first comparative study of writers who fled from both the Nazi and Communist dictatorships in East-Central Europe includes interpretations of individual trajectories, literary works, and exile literary cultures. A historical and theoretical introduction provides an overview of the events and studies exile cultures from Paris, London, and New York to Moscow, Toronto, and Buenos Aires. Interpretations of select writers are complemented by studies of the main exile journals, publishers, and associations. Special attention is devoted to the problems of homecoming. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (639pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110217742 |
| Index Number: | PN849 |
| CLC: | I510.065 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I -- Introduction -- Exile: Home of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter II: Exile Cultures Abroad: Publishing Ventures, Exiles Associations, and Audiences -- In the Vacuum of Exile: The Hungarian Activists in Vienna 1919 1926 -- Cosmopolitans without a Polis: Towards a Hermeneutics of the East-East Exilic Experience (1929 1945) -- Kultura (1946 2000) -- Polish World War II Veteran migr Writers in the US: Danuta Mostwin and Others -- Irodalmi js g in Exile: 1957 1989 -- The Hungarian Mikes K r and Magyar M hely: Personal Recollections -- We did not want an migr journal : Pavel Tigrid and Sv dectv -- Monica Lovinescu at Radio Free Europe -- Chapter III: Individual Trajectories -- Milo Crnjanski in Exile -- Gombrowicz, the migr -- Paul Goma: the Permanence of Dissidence and Exile -- Writing and Internal Exile in Eastern Europe: The Example of Imre Kert sz -- Kundera s Paradise Lost: Paradigm of the Circle -- Chapter IV: Autobiographical Exile Writing -- Life in Translation: Exile in the Autobiographical Works of Kazimierz Brandys and Andrzej Bobkowski -- From Diary to Novel: S ndor M rai s San Gennaro v re and t let Canudosban -- Exile Diaries: S ndor M rai, Gustaw Herling-Grudzin ski, and Others -- Is There a Place Like Home? Jewish Narratives of Exile and Homecoming in Late Twentieth-Century East-Central Europe -- Chapter V: The 1990s: Homecoming, (Re)Canonization, New Exiles -- Herta M ller: Between Myths of Belonging -- Post-Yugoslav Theater Exile: Transitory, Partial and Digital -- Losing Touch, Keeping in Touch, Out of Touch: The Reintegration of Hungarian Literary Exile after 1989 -- Albert Wass: Rebirth and Apotheosis of a Transylvanian-Hungarian Writer -- Chapter VI -- Instead of Conclusion: East Central Literary Exile and its Representation -- A Timeline of Exile Movements, 1919 2000 -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter |