Flight of fantasy
Subtitle: new perspectives on inner emigration in German literature, 1933-1945
By: edited by Neil H. Donahue and Doris Kirchner.
Contributors: Donahue, Neil H.; Kirchner, Doris.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Authors, German -- 20th century -- Political and social views -- Congresses; National socialism and literature -- Congresses; Germany -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "During the Nazi era many German writers chose, or were forced into, exile. Many others stayed and, after the end of this period, claimed to have retreated into 'Inner Emigration.' The nature of this kind of emigration and the underlying motives of these writers has been hotly debated to this day. Though the reception of Inner Emigration has often been confounded by disputes over the term itself, the issue is ultimately not a matter of nomenclature, but of more far-reaching issues of literary evaluation, moral discernment and the writing of history. This volume presents, for the first time to an English-speaking readership, the complexity of Inner Emigration. This is achieved through the analysis of problematic individual cases of writers who, under constant pressure from a watchful dictatorship to conform and to collaborate, were caught between conscience and compromise." -- rear cover.
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium held at Hofstra University.

Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Inner Emigration: the term and its origins in postwar debates / Stephen Brockmann; title: In the thicket of inner emigration / Reinhold Grimm; title: The young generation's non-national socialist literature during the Third Reich / Hans Dieter Schäfer; title: Culture as simulation: the Third Reich and postmodernity / Hans Dieter Schäfer; title: Targeting the reader, entering history: a new epitaph for the inner emigration / Frank Trommler; title: Absences of time and history: poetry of inner emigration / Leonard Olschner; title: Depictions of the state in works of the inner emigration / Colin Riordan; title: The limits on literary life in the Third Reich / Volker Dahm; title: Opposition or opportunism? Günter Eich's status as inner emigrant / Glenn R. Cuomo; title: Conservative opposition: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's antifascist novel Bockelson: a history of mass hysteria / Karl-Heinz Schoeps; title: Luise Rinser's escape into inner emigration / Diana Orendi; title: Survival without compromise? Reconfiguring the past in the works of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch / Rhys W. Williams; title: Exile honoris causa: the image of Erich Kästner among writers in exile / Guy Stern; title: Günther Weissenborn's ballad of his life / Wulf Koepke; title: Between Apocalypse and Arcadia: Horst Lange's visionary imagination during the Third Reich / Gerald Funk; title: 'I mounted resistance, though I hid the fact': versions of Wolfgang Koeppen's early biography / David Basker; title: Elisabeth Langgässer and the question of inner emigration / Cathy S. Gelbin; title: The unsettling history of German historians in the Third Reich / Amy R. Sims; title: State of the art as art of the Nazi state: the limits of cinematic resistance / David Bathrick.