Exiles traveling : : exploring displacement, crossing boundaries in German exile arts and writings 1933-1945 / / edited by Johannes F. Evelein.

• Superior document: Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik, 68
• TeilnehmendeR: Evelein, Johannes F. 1964-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; Bd. 68.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Exiles Traveling -- List of Contributors/Anschriften der Autorinnen und Autoren / Editors Exiles Traveling -- Preface / Johannes F. Evelein -- Traveling Exiles, Exilic Travel – Conceptual Encounters / Johannes F. Evelein -- On Time and Space in Exile – Past, Present and Future in a No-Man’s Land / Wulf Koepke -- Jüdisches Exil in Ostasien, vor allem in Japan (1933–1945) / Thomas Pekar -- German and Austrian Exile Literature in Belgium 1933–1945. Topography and Perspectives / Hubert Roland -- Fern-Weh. Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Novels Tynset and Masante as Topographical Reflections of the Exile Experience / Henrike Walter -- Paul Zech’s Exotic Travels in South America / Donald G. Daviau -- The German Exile Experience in Brazil from the Perspective of Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage / Reinhard Andress -- Chronotopoi und Kindheitserinnerung: Europareisen im amerikanischen Exilwerk von Klaus Mann / Susanne Utsch -- Definitions of Exile. Unwilling Tourist (1941–1942): Adolf Hoffmeister’s Odyssey into Emigration (1939–1940) / Jörg Thunecke -- Criss-Crossings of Robert Siodmak: The Time and Space of Cinematic Exile / Laura Heins -- The Nazi Envoy: Travel Experiences of the Poet Hans Friedrich Blunck in Great Britain and France, 1935 and 1937 / W. Scott Hoerle -- Traveltalks in Music – Von Mahlers Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen zu Eislers Hollywooder Liederbuch und darüber hinaus / Primavera Driessen Gruber -- Themes of Exile in the Music and Public and Private Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1930–1945) / Lisa Hooper -- Transit/Transfer/Transgression: Das Erzählen von “Ent-Ortung” in Anna Seghers’ Erzählungen (1924–1980) / Patrick B. Farges -- “Kahl und wild wie ein Mondgebirge” – Exile and Mind Travel in Anna Seghers’ The Excursion of the Dead Girls / Birgit Maier-Katkin -- Aimless Travels: Deromanticizing Exile in Irmgard Keun’s Kind aller Länder (1938) / Helga Schreckenberger -- Exil und Reisen im Geiste – Rudolf Leonhards Traumbuch des Exils / Margot Taureck -- “Jetzt stocke ich in zwei Zungen” – The Influence of Exile and Travel on Themes, Language and Literary Style in the Writings of Members of Das Jüngste Deutschland / Karina Lindeiner-Stráský -- Involuntary and Voluntary Travel in Egon Schwarz’s Unfreiwillige Wanderjahre and Die japanische Mauer / Jacqueline Vansant -- Index / Editors Exiles Traveling.