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 ordinary escapees' difficulties into account, paradoxically offers a more subtle and true picture than sociological studies, that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals.
By:
L. Furst Imprint: Palgrave Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 445g ISBN:9781403969750 ISBN 10: 1403969752 Pages: 256 Publication Date:08 September 2005 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
