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An other tongue: language and identity in translingual writing
No full textPhDAbandoning one‟s mother tongue for another language is one of the most profound aspects of exile experience, often fraught with feelings of loss and alienation. Yet the linguistic switch can also be viewed as an advantage: the adopted language becomes a refuge, affording the writer creative distance and perspective. This thesis examines the effects of this switch as reflected in the works of two translingual Jewish authors, Stefan Heym (1913-2001) and Jakov Lind (1927-2007). Both were forced into exile after their lives in Germany and Austria were shattered by the rise of Nazism, and both chose English as a medium of artistic expression at certain periods of their lives.
Reading these authors‟ works within their post-war historical context, the thesis argues that translingualism is associated with a psychic split as the self is divided between its languages. This schism manifests itself differently in the writing of each of these authors, according to their distinct perceptions of their identity and place in the world: in Lind‟s work, it is experienced as a schizophrenic existence, and in Heym‟s – as an advantageous doubling of perspective.
The first chapter focuses on autobiographical writing in a foreign language, exploring how self and language are bound together in Lind‟s English-language autobiographies. The second chapter draws on Bakhtin‟s notion of dialogism as it considers the relationship between narration, ideology and propaganda in Heym‟s war novel The Crusaders. The third chapter examines Lind‟s and Heym‟s representations of the writer in their fiction, and how their translingualism defines their perception of their own identity and role as writers. The final chapter shows how the two authors reinterpret the figure of the Wandering Jew to construct different visions of a humanistic Jewish identity that correspond to their own diasporic existence
Stefan Heym
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/317361One letter from Heym, 23 March 1994. One item from the German Administration of State Security, 22 June 1971. Both in German.280783
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My Dreams by Georg Heym as a Literary Source
No full textDiary records by German expressionist poet Georg Heym (1887–1912) where he describes his dreams and night fantasies demonstrate his deep interest in borderline psychic conditions and give us a unique opportunity to get inside poet’s creative workshop. In My Dreams Georg Heym records various manifestations of his imagination: his passion for antiquity and revolutionary France history, macabre scenes of violence, and disturbances of his personal life. The Russian translation is done by Konstantin Matrosov. Introduction by Anton Chorny is an attempt to track the history of the manuscript and its traces in memoirs and scholarly papers. Commentaries give brief information on personal names and circumstances mentioned by the author
Adesso mi ricordo. Stefan Heym da "L'indifferente" a "Collin".
No full textThis essay analyses two literary works written by Stefan Heym (1913-2001), an Eastern German author of Jewish origins known for his dissident socialist positions. In the story “The Indifferent” and in the novel “Collin” (1979), Heym deals with the uneasy subject of Stalinism in the Eastern Block in the Fifties, with particular reference to the ‘sham trials’ that took place in Hungary and in the GDR. What stands out at the centre of both works is the theme of the removal of memory as a defence mechanism against subjects that are painful to the self. At the same time, the recovery of that memory functions as a legitimation of the role of the intellectual, whose task is to tell the truth
Stefan Heym
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/317498Newspaper article about Stefan Heym280919
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ORTIZ RUBIO, Pascual; Guillermo HEYM
No full textHeaded envelope of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, titled "Box Pascual Ortiz Rubio - Guillermo Heym," containing a letter and reports that Mr. Guillermo Heym sent to Gen. and Engr. Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Secretary of Communications and Public Works, in which he tells of his travel to Philadelphia, where he saw locomotives and the rolling stock that the Mexican Navigation and Machinery Corporation offers to sell to Mexico and that is in terrible condition. Biographical data of Mr. Otto Kafka and reports about the Argos Steel Products Company. / Sobre membretado de la Secretaría Particular de la Presidencia de la República, titulado "Caja Pascual Ortiz Rubio - Guillermo Heym", conteniendo una carta e informes que envía el Sr. Guillermo Heym al Gral. e Ing. Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Secretario de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas, en los que informa de su viaje a Filadelfia donde examinó las locomotoras y el material rodante que la Mexican Navigation and Machinery Corporation ofrece en venta a México y que está en ruinosas condiciones. Datos biográficos del Sr. Otto Kafka e informes sobre la Argos Steel Products Company
ORTIZ RUBIO, Pascual; Guillermo HEYM
No full textHeaded envelope of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, titled "Box Pascual Ortiz Rubio - Guillermo Heym," containing a letter and reports that Mr. Guillermo Heym sent to Gen. and Engr. Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Secretary of Communications and Public Works, in which he tells of his travel to Philadelphia, where he saw locomotives and the rolling stock that the Mexican Navigation and Machinery Corporation offers to sell to Mexico and that is in terrible condition. Biographical data of Mr. Otto Kafka and reports about the Argos Steel Products Company. / Sobre membretado de la Secretaría Particular de la Presidencia de la República, titulado "Caja Pascual Ortiz Rubio - Guillermo Heym", conteniendo una carta e informes que envía el Sr. Guillermo Heym al Gral. e Ing. Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Secretario de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas, en los que informa de su viaje a Filadelfia donde examinó las locomotoras y el material rodante que la Mexican Navigation and Machinery Corporation ofrece en venta a México y que está en ruinosas condiciones. Datos biográficos del Sr. Otto Kafka e informes sobre la Argos Steel Products Company
Georg Heym, diecinueve ventanas a su poesía
No full textEstas líneas proponen un recorrido por la producción poética de Georg Heym, figura iniciática del Expresionismo alemán. El objeto de la selección realizada es mostrar la diversidad de fuentes que nutren al autor, y que someten su obra a un delicado pulso entre herencia e innovación. La cuidada métrica resiste la presión de una temática rebosante de obsesión y presagio. Una cultura potente y suicida, la de la Alemania de anteguerras, desborda por boca del autor en una alocución donde creación y destrucción conviven en misterioso e íntimo connubio
"Ma questa è la nostra epoca!". Daniel Defoe, Stefan Heym e la censura nella Repubblica Democratica Tedesca.
No full textThis article deals with the short story written by the East German writer Stefan
Heym The Queen against Defoe, from the notes of a one Josiah Creech (1969). Stefan
Heym focuses on the arrest of the British journalist and writer Daniel Defoe following
the publication of the satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters;
Or Proposal for the Establishment of the Church (1702). In the representation of
the English monarchic absolutism Heym adumbrates the political and cultural
situation which was current in the German Democratic Republic. In particular,
Heym is interested in the connection between the freedom of speech and the
action of censorship
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