Author : Robert Levy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395643792
While making his way home from school during a blizzard, Daniel collapses, only to reawaken in an alien new world, populated by strange, telepathic creatures and caught in the midst of a devastating civil war.
Author : John Godfrey Jacques
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Exiles
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9042028769
This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.
Author : George Kennan
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Siberia
ISBN :
Author : Blai Guarné
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315282755
The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex. It engages with particular life situations, exploring the extent to which personal experiences and lifestyle choices influence this contemporary multifaceted nation-state. Adopting a theoretically engaged ethnographic approach, and considering a range of "escapes" both physical and metaphorical, this book provides a rich picture of the fusions and fissures that comprise Japan and Japaneseness today.
Author : B N Rundell
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2020-01-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781641198523
Gabriel Stonecroft along with his life-long friend, Ezra, the son of the pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal church, at his side, the journey to the far wilderness of the west would begin. One man from prominent social standing, the other with a life of practical experience, are soon joined in life building adventures.
Author : George Kennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108048234
An American journalist's unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, of Russia's brutal penal system in Siberia.
Author : Ann Shin
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488073945
WINNER OF THE TRILLIUM AWARD An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, miles away, Suja has begun to feel the tenuousness of her privilege when she learns that Jin has disappeared. Risking everything, and defying her family, Suja sets out to find him, embarking on a dangerous journey that leads her into a dark criminal underbelly and tests their love and will to survive. In this vivid and moving story, award-winning filmmaker Ann Shin offers a rare glimpse at life inside the guarded walls of North Korea and the harrowing experiences of those who are daring enough to attempt escape. Inspired by real stories of incredible bravery, The Last Exiles is a stunning debut about love, sacrifice and the price of liberty.
Author : Jean-Michel Palmier
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1784786454
In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, "the best of Germany," refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Dblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.
Author : Daniel Stein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793617015
Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the figure of the “exile” as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.
