Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Mediations Through Migrations

ISBN-13: 9780367569112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 265 str.

Susanne Korbel; Philipp Strobl

Opis

The volume examines the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" and offers a global analysis of the processes of cultural translation and knowledge transfer affecting culture, and sciences, but also everyday life.

Spis treści

1. Mediations Through Migrations: An Introduction on Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer  Part I: Networks: Family, Friendships, Relations  2. Jakob Rosenfeld: A Viennese Jewish Doctor Discovers Heimat in Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army  3. Knowledge from Five Continents: Escape Destinations in Publications of German-Speaking Political Refugees, 1933–1940  4. Salka Viertel and the Gendered In/Visibility of Cultural Mediation  5. Archives of Imagination: Johanna and Ermanno Loevinson as Cultural Translators  Part 2: Strategies of Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer  6. Translating Modernism: Hedy Krilla’s Theater Work Through the Lens of Exile  7. Travelling Knowledge: Refugees from Nazism and Their Impact on Art Music and Musicology in Post-1945 Canada  8. Indecent Bathing Suits and Women Who Smoke: Austrian Refugees as Cultural Mediators in the Transit Country Portugal After 1938  9. Between the Couch and Two Cultures: William Rose, Psychoanalysis, Translation and the Creation of Cultural Capital by Literary Exiles During the Second World War  Part 3: Actors of Transfer and Translation  10. "Somehow the Ill Winds of War Have Been Favourable to Me": Travel, Training, and Trauma in the Life and Works of Louis Kahan  11. An Unsung Austrian Doyen: Erwin Felber and the Transference of Cultural and Musical Knowledge in Wartime Shanghai  12. Melitta and Victor Urbancic: Art in Exile in Iceland  13. Ingolf Dahl (1912–1970): Multifaceted Musician – Knowledge and Cultural Transfer Between Central Europe and Los Angeles