Author: Shulamith Behr; Marian Malet (Editors)
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: exile, german, austrian, studies, centre, yearbook, britain, amp, politics, cultural, research, identity, arts
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 2005-06-21
List price: $114.00
ISBN-10: 9042017864
ISBN-13: 9789042017863
This volume focuses on the contribution of refugees from Nazism to the Arts in Britain. The essays examine the much neglected theme of art in internment and address the spheres of photography, political satire, sculpture, architecture, artists’ organisations, institutional models, dealership and conservation. These are considered under the broad headings ‘Art as Politics’, ‘Between the Public and the Domestic’ and ‘Creating Frameworks’. Such categories assist in posing questions regarding the politics of identity and gender, as well as providing an opportunity to explore the comp
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Orb Books
Keywords: exile, rocannon, volume, world, city, illusions, one, planet, series, three, illusion, complete, novels, hainish, worlds
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-10-15
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0312862113
ISBN-13: 9780312862114
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in Worlds of Exile and Illusion. These novels, Rocannon’s world, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classic, The Left hand of Darkness.Tor is pleased to return these previously unavailable works to print in this attractive new edition.
Author: Charmian Brinson; Richard Dove; Jennifer Taylor (E
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: exile, german, centre, austrian, studies, research, yearbook, austria, austrians, britain, immortal
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 9042021578
ISBN-13: 9789042021570
’Immortal Austria’ was the title of a theatrical pageant devised by Austrian refugees in wartime London, the name summarizing their collective memory of their homeland as a country of mountain scenery, historical grandeur and musical refinement. The reality of the country they had left, and the one to which some of them returned, was very different. This volume contains various studies of the representations of their homeland in the cultural production of Austrian exiles, including those projected by émigrés working in the British film industry, those portrayed in the histori
Author: Anthony Grenville
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: german, austrian, exile, studies, centre, research, yearbook, amp, third, britain, refugees, reich
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2003-02-20
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 9042011041
ISBN-13: 9789042011045
Author: Ann Ireland
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Keywords: exile
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2004-05-28
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1550024914
ISBN-13: 9781550024913
Rescued from the dangers he faces in a Latin American military dictatorship, writer Carlos Romero Estevez is given a new life in Vancouver. His rescuers, a benevolent group devoted to aiding oppressed writers, believe they’ve found a poster-boy. Carlos things he’s found a new life, new freedom, and new, powerful friends. But soon everyone’s illusions are dispelled, and Carlos finds life in exile to be a new kind of prison. Shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction and now available in trade paperback format for the first time, Exile is the work of an author i
Author: Denise Mina
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: exile
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-10-10
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0316016802
ISBN-13: 9780316016803
"Stunning. . . . The danger reaches a frightening pitch."--Rocky Mountain News "Mina offers us a complex plot with a shocking ending, all told in an amazingly original voice." -Cleveland Plain Dealer"This is a terrific book." -Dallas Morning NewsA New York Times Notable Book of the YearTrying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover’s murder, Maureen O’Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. When the body of shelter resident Ann Harris washes up on the banks of the ThamesRiver two weeks later, Maureen vows to discover what h
Author: Padraic O Conaire
Publisher: Clo Iar-Chonnachta
Keywords: exile
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1999-12-31
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1874700621
ISBN-13: 9781874700623
A masterpiece that is as fresh as if it were written yesterday."" Booklist
