Unexpected routes : refugee writers in Mexico / Tabea Alexa Linhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linhard, Tabea Alexa, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Unexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer Anna Seghers, German author Ruth Rewald, Swiss-born political activist, photographer, and ethnographer Gertrude Duby, and Czech writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch. While these six writers came from different backgrounds, wrote in different languages, and enjoyed very different levels of recognition in their lifetimes and posthumously, they all made sense of their forced displacement in works that reveal their conflicted relationships with the people and places they encountered in transit as well as in Mexico, the country in which they all eventually found asylum. The literary output of these six brilliant, prolific, but also flawed individuals reflects the most salient contradictions of what it meant to escape from fascist occupied Europe. In a study that bridges history, literary studies, and refugee studies, Tabea Alexa Linhard draws connections between colonialism, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II and the Holocaust to shed light on the histories and literatures of exile and migration, drawing connections to today's refugee crisis and asking larger questions around the notions of belonging, longing, and the lived experience of exile"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. Beautiful Friendships

Chapter Two. The Emotional Geographies of Old and New Homes

Chapter Three. Ships of Fools: Silvia Mistral

Chapter Four. Transit and Chance Encounters

Chapter Five. No Solid Ground: Max Aub

Chapter Six. A Mexican Sector in Berlin: Anna Seghers

Chapter Seven. Yearning for Mexico: Ruth Rewald

Chapter Eight. Magical Zapatistas: Gertrude Duby

Chapter Nine. Landscapes of Grief: Egon Erwin Kisch

Chapter Ten. Afterlives

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Linhard, Tabea Alexa Unexpected Routes

ISBN:

9781503635968

OCLC:

1376931479