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Women Writing Home

Heimat and Belonging in Exile Writing after 1933

by Angharad Mountford (Author)
©2024 Monographs VIII, 244 Pages
Series: Exile Studies, Volume 24

Summary

Women writers offer us rich and diverse perspectives on exile, yet they remain relatively unexplored in the scholarship. This book aims to address this omission by illuminating the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer, Gabriele Tergit, Ruth Feiner and Eva Priester, in different and unique ways, all articulate ideas of (national) identity and home in their work, opening up new ways of understanding the impact of exile and gender on belonging.
Using Heimat theory, nomadic subjectivity and transnationalism, the women’s works are interrogated to encourage a reassessment of traditional conceptions of Heimat and belonging for refugees, exiles, and those distanced – whether physically or emotionally – from «home».

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Details

Pages
VIII, 244
Publication Year
2024
ISBN (PDF)
9781800796713
ISBN (ePUB)
9781800796720
ISBN (Softcover)
9781800796706
DOI
10.3726/b18971
Language
English
Publication date
2024 (December)
Keywords
belonging refugee literature refugee and migration studies women in exile women writers Heimat transnationalism translingualism identity
Published
Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2024. VIII, 244 pp.

Biographical notes

Angharad Mountford (Author)

Angharad Mountford completed her PhD at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (now the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies), School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is an active member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.

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