Flight of Fantasy

New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945

By: Neil H. Donahue (Editor), Doris Kirchner (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2003

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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 have 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 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.

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"This fine volume...exemplifies German scholarship at its best...It is a singular accomplishment. Although written by eighteen authors, the essays seem of a piece. They are uniformly well written, clear, insightful, and free of annoying jargon." · German Quarterly

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: "Coming to Terms" with the German Past	p. 1
The Past of the Term
Inner Emigration: The Term and Its Origins in Postwar Debates	p. 11
Foundational Essays
In the Thicket of Inner Emigration	p. 27
The Young Generation's Non-National Socialist Literature during the Third Reich	p. 46
New Perspectives: Synoptic Studies
Culture as Simulation: The Third Reich and Postmodernity	p. 82
Targeting the Reader, Entering History: A New Epitaph for the Inner Emigration	p. 113
Absences of Time and History: Poetry of Inner Emigration	p. 131
Depictions of the State in Works of the Inner Emigration	p. 152
The Limits on Literary Life in the Third Reich	p. 168
New Perspectives: Case Studies
Opposition or Opportunism? Gunter Eich's Status as Inner Emigrant	p. 176
Conservative Opposition: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Antifascist Novel Bockelson: A History of Mass Hysteria	p. 188
Luise Rinser's Escape into Inner Emigration	p. 199
Survival without Compromise? Reconfiguring the Past in the Works of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch	p. 211
Exile honoris causa: The Image of Erich Kastner among Writers in Exile	p. 223
Gunther Weissenborn's Ballad of His Life	p. 235
Between Apocalypse and Arcadia: Horst Lange's Visionary Imagination during the Third Reich	p. 248
"I mounted resistance, though I hid the fact": Versions of Wolfgang Koeppen's Early Biography	p. 258
Elisabeth Langgasser and the Question of Inner Emigration	p. 269
The Turn Inward Outside of Literature
History
The Unsettling History of German Historians in the Third Reich	p. 277
Film
State of the Art as Art of the Nazi State: The Limits of Cinematic Resistance	p. 292
Selected Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 309
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