Exile Studies

Exile Studies is a series of monographs and edited collections that takes a broad view of exile, including the life and work of refugees from National Socialism, and beyond. The series explores the different global and cultural spaces of exile and refuge as well as the specific historical, political and social concerns of exile writers and artists. The series engages with recent theoretical approaches to exile to shed new light on the unique conditions of mass flight from National Socialist persecution, with a particular interest in the work of Jewish refugees of the period. A plurality of theoretical approaches is encouraged, featuring research that reaches beyond national frameworks or disciplinary boundaries and takes multi-directional, transcultural or comparative approaches. The series aims to make connections to studies on more recent groups of refugees and to contribute to current debates. Themes include persecution,　exclusion and delocalization, legacies of displacement, loss and acculturation as well as the creation of new homes and networks. The series promotes dialogue among transnational, Jewish and memory studies, and among diaspora, Holocaust and postcolonial studies. It invites research that acknowledges questions of gender, race, class, religion and ethnicity as indispensable tools for understanding the cultural processes connected to the lives and works of refugees and exiles.

32 publications

The Literature and Poetry of Exile

ISSN: 1077-0194

This series aims to publish literary and poetic texts, as well as studies, commentaries, and interpretations of the experiences and reactions to exile. The purpose of the series is to encourage responses to those enigmatic but essential questions: What is the meaning of exile? What imaginative and concrete imagery does it evoke? This series is committed to the belief that exile is a fundamental characteristic of our age and bears witness to its existential reality. We want this series to provide a forum for writers in exile and to make it possible for their voices to be heard. This series aims to publish literary and poetic texts, as well as studies, commentaries, and interpretations of the experiences and reactions to exile. The purpose of the series is to encourage responses to those enigmatic but essential questions: What is the meaning of exile? What imaginative and concrete imagery does it evoke? This series is committed to the belief that exile is a fundamental characteristic of our age and bears witness to its existential reality. We want this series to provide a forum for writers in exile and to make it possible for their voices to be heard. This series aims to publish literary and poetic texts, as well as studies, commentaries, and interpretations of the experiences and reactions to exile. The purpose of the series is to encourage responses to those enigmatic but essential questions: What is the meaning of exile? What imaginative and concrete imagery does it evoke? This series is committed to the belief that exile is a fundamental characteristic of our age and bears witness to its existential reality. We want this series to provide a forum for writers in exile and to make it possible for their voices to be heard.

1 publications

Exiles and Transterrados

ISSN: 2297-9263

Philosopher José Gaos coined the neologism transterrado to describe his life as an exile in Mexico. This series investigates the experience of Spanish Civil War exiles and explores the various and complex connections between their work and the cultural products of the countries where they spent their exile, from the 1930s to the 1970s. The series is open to interdisciplinary approaches in a wide range of fields from literature and philosophy to history, cultural studies and art history. We will also consider critical editions of the lost or unpublished works of exiled writers. The series publishes in English and Spanish. El filósofo José Gaos acuñó el neologismo transterrado para describir su vida como exiliado en México: esta serie se enfoca, principalmente, en el exilio resultante de la Guerra Civil española y sus variadas y complejas conexiones con la producción cultural de los países en los que transcurría ese exilio, de 1936–1939 a 1975, al menos. La experiencia española es un caso particular, por la magnitud de la población desterrada y por la duración del destierro, de una situación que marca la historia del siglo veinte: la serie está abierta a perspectivas interdisciplinarias sobre el exilio en un amplio abanico que abarca desde literatura y filosofía hasta historia, desde estudios culturales hasta el arte y la historia del arte. La colección también contempla propuestas de edición, con introducciones críticas, de obras perdidas o inéditas de los escritores exiliados. La serie se publica en inglés y en español. Philosopher José Gaos coined the neologism transterrado to describe his life as an exile in Mexico. This series investigates the experience of Spanish Civil War exiles and explores the various and complex connections between their work and the cultural products of the countries where they spent their exile, from the 1930s to the 1970s. The series is open to interdisciplinary approaches in a wide range of fields from literature and philosophy to history, cultural studies and art history. We will also consider critical editions of the lost or unpublished works of exiled writers. The series publishes in English and Spanish. El filósofo José Gaos acuñó el neologismo transterrado para describir su vida como exiliado en México: esta serie se enfoca, principalmente, en el exilio resultante de la Guerra Civil española y sus variadas y complejas conexiones con la producción cultural de los países en los que transcurría ese exilio, de 1936–1939 a 1975, al menos. La experiencia española es un caso particular, por la magnitud de la población desterrada y por la duración del destierro, de una situación que marca la historia del siglo veinte: la serie está abierta a perspectivas interdisciplinarias sobre el exilio en un amplio abanico que abarca desde literatura y filosofía hasta historia, desde estudios culturales hasta el arte y la historia del arte. La colección también contempla propuestas de edición, con introducciones críticas, de obras perdidas o inéditas de los escritores exiliados. La serie se publica en inglés y en español.

10 publications