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Random Destinations: Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew

Autor L. Furst
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 sep 2005
Random Destinations examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. They faced many concrete and psychological problems at their random destinations: language acquisition, adjustment to different moves, fitting into the community, coming to terms with having been rejected by their homeland, the conflict between the desire to remember and/or forget their past, and, above all, the need to reshape their identities. Their personal struggles are contextualized within their historical situation, both global and specific to their new locale. The book argues that fiction, by taking ordinary escapees' difficulties into account, paradoxically offers a more subtle and true picture than sociological studies, that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403969750
ISBN-10: 1403969752
Pagini: 213
Ilustrații: XVIII, 213 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:2005
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

PART I: TO THE READER 'Shards from the Explosion'; L.Furst PART II: LONDON 'Twin Souls'; A.Brookner 'The Hidden Abyss'; G.Tindall 'A Success Story'; R.Prawer Jhabvala PART III: BRITISH PROVINCES 'Try to Forget'; M.Duffy 'To Serve Under the Chimney'; W.G.Sebald PART IV: NEW YORK 'The Great Loss'; B.Malamud 'An Abundance of Happiness'; R.Prawer Jhabvala 'A Bizarre Double Game'; I.Bashevis Singer PART V: US PROVINCES 'Can You Harmonize?'; C.Asch 'An Inconsequential Appendix and Coda'; R.Jarrell PART VI: INDIA 'Accepting but not Accepted'; A.Desai 'The Hanger-O'; R.Prawer Jhabvala 'A Bit in the Middle of Nowhere'; L.Furst PART VII: NOTES

Notă biografică

LILIAN R. FURST is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, USA. Born in Vienna she escaped Austria in 1939. She was educated in England, and emigrated to the US in 1971. She has published mainly on nineteenth-century European literature, including Romanticism in Perspective, Fictions of Romantic Irony, and All is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction. She has also published Home is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices, which combines her own childhood memories of emigration with a manuscript left by her father.