Das zweite Gesicht : German and English parallel text = The face of Pearl Harbor / Mark Siegelberg ; edited and with an introduction by Tomas Sommadossi
Tomas Sommadossi is postdoctoral scholar in German Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His main research interests include modern Austrian literature, Asian German studies, inter mediality and film semiotics. He is co-editor of Transpacifica, an an tho logy of German texts reflecting, from a Middle...
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| Główni autorzy: | Siegelberg, Mark (Autor) |
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| Kolejni autorzy: | Sommadossi, Tomas (Redaktor) |
| Format: | Książka |
| Język: | English German |
| Wydane: | München : Iudicium, 2017. |
| Seria: | Iaponia insula ,
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| Dostęp online: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Streszczenie: | Tomas Sommadossi is postdoctoral scholar in German Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His main research interests include modern Austrian literature, Asian German studies, inter mediality and film semiotics. He is co-editor of Transpacifica, an an tho logy of German texts reflecting, from a Middle European perspective, the formation of what has been called “the Asian American century” (W.I.Cohen), that is, the emergence between 1900 and 1945 of a pivotal geopolitical triangle in the Northern Pacific with the USA, Japan and China as its vertices. Even more than seventy years after the Second World War, German exile literature continues to wait with surprises. This is true in particular for the estates of those writers who fled across less ‘privileged’ routes to remote places such as Shanghai. Mark Siegelberg (1895–1986) was one of them. The nowadays almost forgotten Austrian Jewish journalist, novelist and playwright set out on the long route to East Asia in 1939, after being released from Buchenwald concentration camp, where he had been interned the previous year. His Shanghai period lasted until the beginning of December 1941, when he was evacuated to Australia. His final destination of exile was Melbourne; there he would live for 27 years before returning to Austria in 1968. Siegelberg deserves distinction as the only German-language author who ever addressed the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7th, 1941 as the topic of a literary work, and, moreover, as one who did so in the immediacy of the historic events on the Pacific Front. The unique result of this commitment is the play Das zweite Gesicht/The Face of Pearl Harbor (1942). The piece, in which Siegelberg displays a complex world political scenario against the backdrop of the militarized city of Shanghai held in check by the Japanese, attests to the author’s indignation over the escalation of violence in East Asia during the turbulent phase leading up to the outbreak of the Pacific War. While an English translation of the piece appeared in Australia in 1944, supposedly as an anti-Japanese propaganda initiative, the original text in German is published in this volume for the very first time. |
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| Deskrypcja: | Auf der Rückseite des Titelblatts: Die vorliegende Edition basiert auf: "Das zweite Gesicht". Typoskript aus dem Nachlass Mark Siegelbergs im Besitz von Dr. Wilfried Seywald (Wien) ; "The Face of Pearl Harbour". Übersetzt von Jean Anderson und Herta Schnierer. Melbourne: The View 1944 |
| Opis fizyczny: | 186 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 21 cm x 13 cm, 275 g |
| ISBN: | 9783862052578 3862052575 |
