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Random Destinations
Lilian R. Furst
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Description for Random Destinations
Paperback. "Random Destinations" links social and political history with literature in its analysis of the ways in which novels and short stories portray the subsequent lives and problems of those who managed to leave Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBL; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Number of Pages
213
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349531455
SKU
V9781349531455
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99-15
About Lilian R. Furst
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 ... Read more
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