"The Jewish poet Edmond Jabes, born in Cairo in 1912, characterized his writings as 'not belonging'. Drawing on unpublished archival and rare printed sources. Steven Jaron traces this sense of exile to early beginnings, while Jabes was still living in Egypt. At that time, the yo…
A theoretical overview and six case studies showing that the exile of intellectuals is a difficult, dependent, and fluid condition, whose achievements are dearly bought and whose endings rarely fulfill the missions informing their beginnings.
"Caught by Politics recalls the exile of German and European visual artists and film practitioners in the United States. The book traces the paths and aesthetic strategies of Hitler exiles in the United States as ones of productive encounters and ironic cultural masquerades. Whi…
Mediale Mobilmachung meint weit mehr als die filmische Veranschaulichung einer ideologischen Botschaft. Sie verlangt, "zu elementaren Konfliktstellungen zu kommen, die mit den natürlichen Sinnen, den Augen und Ohren, ohne komplizierte Denkprozesse aufgenommen, das heißt unmittel…