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"The Statue of Liberty Did Not Give Us the Hitler Salute": Autobiographies and Oral Histories of Exiled Austrian Jews
Wimmer, Adi
1995
Abstract
The author’s purpose is to explore the traditional stance of critical literature on the experience of exile, and to juxtapose it with an alternative critical approach, based on a theory of exile-and-expulsion literature as a literature of trauma. Beforehand, however, the term “exile” and its distinction from related concepts such as “emigration/émigré” are defined. Citations taken out of biographies and interviews of concerned Austrian Jews give us an image of the situation these exiles found themselves in: the obstacles encountered when trying to get out of Nazi-Austria and into another country, the difficulties in the relation with the host country, its language and culture, and later on, the consideration of a possible return to Austria. Finally the focus is on the problems faced by those who, trying to overcome their trauma, wrote down their stories.
Series
Prospero. Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali
II (1995)
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Adi Wimmer, “ "The Statue of Liberty Did Not Give Us the Hitler Salute": Autobiographies and Oral Histories of Exiled Austrian Jews", in: Prospero. Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali, II (1995), pp. 79-93
Languages
en
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