Literarische Kultur im Exil

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"Guy Stern, one of the leading experts on exile literature, presents with this volume more than thirty articles and essays about the literature and culture of the exile period. All of these originated in the years 1989-1997, five of them have never appeared in print before. The result of Stern's more than forty years of inquiry into the consequences of the cultural exodus from Nazi-Germany, these pieces also respond to the challenges posed by the generational changes in exile writing and to the innovations in our approaches to literature. Confronted with a new constellation, both postmodern and global and marked by multiculturalism and ethnically motivated mass expulsions, exile research has acquired in our times a new, highly topical significance. That is indeed one of the underlying tenets of this volume. The rare combination in exile studies of a scholarly approach and an autobiographical perspective lends additional weight to Stern's analysis. The fact that it is partially written in English, partially in German is further demonstration of the author's own role as a representative of exile writing."--Jacket