the novels of Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hammel, Andrea
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, vluchtelingen, nationaal socialisme, sociale klasse, gender, racisme, joodse vrouwen, vrouwbeelden, multicultureel, politiek, discriminatie, dagelijks leven, Centraal-Europa, Duitsland, Oostenrijk, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, literaire analyse
- Description
- Comparative study of the novels written by five German-speaking women - Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen - who had to flee National Socialist Central Europe. The aim of this study is to reassess the women refugee writers' narrative strategies and integrate their work within feminist literary studies. The author investigates the five writers' narrativisation of everyday life, used to subvert the dominant discourse, and their portrayal of the intersection between class, racial and gender oppression. The book situates the novels within the theoretical discussions surrounding exile studies, social history and women's writing. . .Contents: Exile Studies in Germany, Austria and Britain - Feminist readings of women refugee novels - Portrayal of Jewish characters - Representations of women - The possibilities of everyday life - Family sagas as multicultural utopias - Respacialisation of politics - Alternative narrative space.