Reconsidering a lost intellectual project : exiles' reflections on cultural differences / edited by Carolina Rodriguez-Lopez and Jose M. Faraldo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodríguez López, Carolina.

Faraldo, José M., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores an aspect of the complex cultural history of 20th-century exile: the influences of transnational experiences on the views of emigrants and exiles concerning their own academic, scientific and intellectual cultures. These essays focus on the reflections of people who left their countries during the period of 1933-1945. Many of them reconsidered their own past in the old country and compared it with their actual experiences in the adopted homeland. The individual cases presen...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; RECONSIDERING A LOST INTELLECTUAL PROJECT; PART I; DISCOVERING A LOST INTELLECTUALS' PROJECT; HOPES TO REACH AN ACADEMIC PROJECT; THE THREE PHASES OF LIBERACIÓN, A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER; PART II; DREAMS OF A BETTER PAST; ROMANIAN INTELLECTUAL ELITES IN EXILE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4438-3701-6

OCLC:

827209461