03048nam 2200637Ia 450 991045058560332120200520144314.01-281-36808-397866113680811-4039-7941-3(CKB)1000000000342709(EBL)308069(OCoLC)560461298(SSID)ssj0000232520(PQKBManifestationID)11947294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232520(PQKBWorkID)10214753(PQKB)11494950(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7941-4(MiAaPQ)EBC308069(Au-PeEL)EBL308069(CaPaEBR)ebr10135424(CaONFJC)MIL136808(EXLCZ)99100000000034270920050509d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRandom destinations[electronic resource] escaping the Holocaust and starting life anew /Lilian R. Furst1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53145-6 1-4039-6975-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-207) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; To the Reader; Introduction: "Shards from the Explosion"; LONDON; BRITISH PROVINCES; NEW YORK; U.S. PROVINCES; INDIA; Conclusion: "A Bit in the Middle of Nowhere"; Notes; Bibliography; IndexRandom Destinations examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930's following the rise of Nazism. They faced many concrete and psychological problems at their random destinations: language acquisition, adjustment to different moves, 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 more subtle and true picture than sociological studies, that have tended to foreground the successes of a few outstanding individuals.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismJewish refugees in literatureEnglish-speaking countriesIn literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Jewish refugees in literature.823/.91409352992423/.914093529924Furst Lilian R131726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450585603321Random destinations2256584UNINA