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Random Destinations - Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew (Hardcover, 2005 ed.) Loot Price: R1,656
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Random Destinations - Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): L. Furst

Random Destinations - Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

L. Furst

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"Random Destinations" examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism. They faced many concrete and psychological problems at their random destinations: language acquisition, adjustment to different mores, fitting into the community, coming to terms with having been rejected by their homeland, the conflict between the desire to remember and/or forget their past, and, above all, the need to reshape their identities. Their personal struggles are contextualized within their historical situation, both global and specific to their new locale. The book argues that fiction, by taking ordinary escapees' difficulties into account, paradoxically offers a subtler and more truer picture that sociological studies that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2005
First published: 2005
Authors: L. Furst
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 213
Edition: 2005 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6975-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Refugees & political asylum
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
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LSN: 1-4039-6975-2
Barcode: 9781403969750

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