Umfang:
1 online resource (741 pages)
ISBN:
9783657760282
Serie:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds 45
Inhalt:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Statelessness, Flight, and Trauma -- 1.1 Making Decisions in 1944 -- 1.2 The "Year of Terror": The First Soviet Occupation 1940-41 -- 1.3 Dashed Hopes: The German Occupation, 1941-1945 -- 1.4 Restoring the Past -- 1.5 Leaving and Staying -- 1.6 Departure: Summer 1944 to Spring 1945 -- 1.7 The Swedish Option -- 1.8 The Reception in Sweden and Germany -- 1.9 Separation and Emotion -- Chapter 2 Refugees and Displaced Persons -- 2.1 The Unmooring of Identity -- 2.2 Camps: Transit, Refugee, and POW -- 2.3 The Swedish Exception -- 2.4 The Latvian DPs in Germany -- 2.5 The Dilemmas of Leadership -- 2.6 The Economics of Refugee Life -- 2.7 'Civil Society' in the Camps -- 2.8 The "Creative" Intelligentsia -- 2.9 The Emerging Exile Culture -- Chapter 3 Old Continent, New Homelands -- 3.1 Exiting from the Camps -- 3.2 Remaining European -- 3.3 German-Speaking Europe -- 3.4 Sweden, Norway, and Finland -- 3.5 United Kingdom -- 3.6 France, the Low Countries, and Denmark -- 3.7 Elsewhere in Europe -- 3.8 A Non-Territorial European Nation -- 3.9 Perpetuating Separateness -- 3.10 The Old Homeland Beckons and Condemns -- Chapter 4 New Homelands on New Continents -- 4.1 Leaving Europe -- 4.2 North America: the United States -- 4.3 North America: Canada -- 4.4 Australia and New Zealand -- 4.5 South America -- 4.6 Dispersal and National Identity -- 4.7 Coping with Marginality -- Chapter 5 Resettlement Years: The 1950s -- 5.1 The DP Camp Heritage -- 5.2 The Enigma of Assimilation -- 5.3 The Organizational Impulse -- 5.4 Safeguarding the Latvian Language -- 5.5 The Latvian Family and Latvian Home -- 5.6 Grade Schools and Higher Education -- 5.7 The Belletrists -- 5.8 The Periodical Press -- 5.9 Worship and Cultural Uniqueness -- 5.10 Resettlement and Collective Identity.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783506760289
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783506760289
Sprache:
Englisch
