Exile and Everyday Life: 16 (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 16) - Softcover

Exile and everyday life' focusses on the everyday life experience of refugees fleeing National Socialism in the 1930s and 1940s as well as the representation of this experience in literature and culture. The contributions in this volume show experiences of loss, strategies of adaptation and the creation of a new identity and life. It covers topics such as Exile in Shanghai, Ireland, the US and the UK, food in exile, the writers Gina Kaus, Vicki Baum and Jean Amâery, refugees in the medical profession andthe creative arts, and the Kindertransport to the UK.0.

Andrea Hammel (DPhil Sussex, UK) is Reader in German at Aberystwyth University. Her publications include books and articles on the literature and history of German-speaking refugees from National Socialism,

Anthony Grenville (BA, DPhil, Oxford) is Consultant Editor of the Association of Jewish Refugees Journal. His publications include Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2010).