The debate about inner and outer emigration was one of the foundational intellectual debates of postwar West German culture, and hence Klapper's effort to revisit it, and to take a new look at inner emigration during the Nazi period, is useful and welcome. . . . [T]his is an important and much-needed book. MONATSHEFTE [Stephen Brockmann] ... Read more [G]enuinely indispensable, even to readers well versed in the topic of inner emigration. The two initial chapters . . . are disproportionately powerful distillations of research in literary history, genre criticism, social analysis, and factual-archival investigation. . . . [A] monumental study. . . . AUSTRIAN STUDIES [N]uanced . . . . [S]ucceeds in its aim of providing much-needed detailed textual and historical analysis of ostensibly ambivalent writings about humanist values that passed or evaded Nazi monitoring of writing and publication. . . . [C]ontributes a remarkable amount [to] the ongoing excavation of this subcategory of nonconformist writing . . . . FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES John Klapper's monograph combines a general introduction to the literature of the so-called inner emigration with exemplary textual analyses. . . . As a whole the study
which is not only directed at scholars in the field
offers a good overview . . . . GERMANISTIK 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Klapper's detailed efforts to historicize the reception history of the inner emigration, and to expand the imaginative scope within which twenty-first-century readers might re-engage with it, offer a blueprint for enriching new departures in this area. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES [A] seminal study that provides even a non-German-speaking readership a detailed view of this interesting topic. . . . Recommended. MITTEILUNGEN DER STEFAN-ANDRES-GESELLSCHAFT [A] comprehensive analysis . . . . Klapper's book gives evidence of an intensive engagement with works of the inner emigration and arrays before the reader readily comprehensible and engaging interpretations that inspire one to want to read-or re-read-the texts. DER LITERARISCHE ZAUNKOENIG In this important and comprehensive study, John Klapper convincingly argues for a reassessment of nonconformist literature and National Socialism. . . [A] useful and important addition not only to literary studies but to the investigation of the arts under National Socialism in general. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW In this compelling, well-researched study-a major contribution to the field-Klapper presents a thorough reassessment of [the] so-called inner emigrants and develops models for untangling the contradictions in their writing. . . . Highly recommended. CHOICE Show Less