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Random destinations : escaping the Holocaust and starting life anew /
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 mores, fitting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 mores, 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 subtler and more truer picture that sociological studies that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781403979414 1403979413 1281368083 9781281368089 9781403969750 1403969752 |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |