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This collection of essays is at the same time a reference work of previously unknown names and topics of German-language exile literature since 1933. The U.S. is one of the most important asylum countries for exiles from Germany, but also for exiles from other European countries where they were expelled by the Nazis. The book focuses on a part of German culture as it is reflected in its heteronomy due to exile in the U.S and also in parts of Central and South America? including individual biographies and their social context in history.

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This collection of essays is at the same time a reference work of previously unknown names and topics of German-language exile literature since 1933. The U.S. is one of the most important asylum countries for exiles from Germany, but also for exiles from other European countries where they were expelled by the Nazis. The book focuses on a part of German culture as it is reflected in its heteronomy due to exile in the U.S and also in parts of Central and South America? including individual biographies and their social context in history.

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This collection of essays is at the same time a reference work of previously unknown names and topics of German-language exile literature since 1933. The U.S. is one of the most important asylum countries for exiles from Germany, but also for exiles from other European countries where they were expelled by the Nazis. The book focuses on a part of German culture as it is reflected in its heteronomy due to exile in the U.S and also in parts of Central and South America? including individual biographies and their social context in history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110240566
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/16/2010
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 9.06(w) x 6.10(h) x (d)
Language: German

About the Author

John M. Spalek, ehemaliger Chairman, Department of German Studies, State University of New York at Albany, USA; Konrad Feilchenfeldt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universityät, München; Sandra Hawrylchak, State University of New York at Albany, USA



John M. Spalek, former Chairman, Department of German Studies, State University of New York at Albany, USA; Konrad Feilchenfeldt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universityät, Munich, Germany; Sandra Hawrylchak, State University of New York at Albany, USA

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