Haunted Encounters: Exile and Holocaust Literature in German and Austrian Post-war Culture

Haunted Encounters: Exile and Holocaust Literature in German and Austrian Post-war Culture

In an essay titled ‘The Exiled Tongue’ (2002), Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész develops a genealogy of Holocaust and émigré writing, in which the German language plays an important, albeit contradictory, role. While the German language signified intellectual independence and freedom of self-definiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birgit Lang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-05-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
Friedrich Torberg
Hilde Spiel
Jean Améry
Imre Kertész
exile literature
post-war era
Auschwitz
Holocaust literature
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/3/2/424

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