Innocence and Experience
Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain
Published on 27. December 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-80079-949-3 (ISBN)
Description
«With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an inspiring and timely intervention into the fields of exile and childhood studies, demonstrating just how inextricably the two are linked.»
(Professor Kiera Vaclavik, Director of the Centre for Childhood Cultures, Queen Mary, University of London)
The essays that make up this book cover a diverse range of subjects, all broadly on the theme of child refugees from Nazism in Britain. The book's three sections - on displacement, children in art, and children in education and play - indicate the various topics considered in the study. The authors come from different academic fields - including German and Austrian exile studies, art history, language and literature, and education - so each chapter offers a depth of research as well as adding to the breadth of the overarching theme. Thus far, there has been no study dedicated to examining both the experience of these refugee children and those who worked with them, and yet they and their own children live on, marked in different ways by their experience and making their own mark in British art and literature too.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
27 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80079-949-3 (9781800799493)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Charmian Brinson | Anna Nyburg
Innocence and Experience
Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain
E-Book
01/2024
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€66.99
Available for download
Charmian Brinson | Anna Nyburg
Innocence and Experience
Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain
E-Book
01/2024
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€66.99
Available for download
Persons
Charmian Brinson is Emeritus Professor of German at Imperial College London and a founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London. She has published numerous books and articles and has lectured extensively in Britain and abroad on the refugees from Nazism, for example on refugee organizations and on the relations between the refugees and the British. Her particular interests include women in exile and political exile.
Anna Nyburg holds a PhD in Exile Studies from the University of London. The subject of her doctoral thesis was refugee art publishers in Britain. Since then she has published widely on the refugees from Nazism in art publishing, design and manufacturing. She is the author of three books, co-producer of a film, and committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies as well as a trustee of the Arts Foundation, which runs the Insiders/Outsiders festival.
Content
Contents: Anna Nyburg: 'A Piece of Rather Formidable News': Motherhood in British Exile - Michal Shapira: The Psychoanalyst and Jewish Refugee Kate Friedlander (1902-1949) and Her Contribution to the Study of Children in Britain - Charmian Brinson: 'In loco parentis?': The Work of the Refugee Youth Organizations, Young Austria and Free German Youth, in Wartime Britain - Lucy Stone: 'Michelle comprend le malheur': Reading Writings by Children Displaced in the Nazi Era - Anthony Grenville: Childhood Trauma as Represented in Literary Works by Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Britain - Monica Bohm- Duchen: Innocence Sullied, Innocence Redeemed: Images of Childhood in the Work of Emigre Artists in the UK after 1933 - Julia Winckler: That Baby: Wolf Suschitzky's and Liselotte Frankl's Pioneering Children's Photo Story Book - Ines Schlenker: Foreign Inspirations: Children's Book Illustrations by Emigre Artists - Rachel Dickson: From Berlin to the Bodley Head: Renate Meyer (1930-2014): The Rediscovery of a Neglected Children's Book Author, Illustrator and Artist - Elizabeth Lamle: Intergenerational Perspectives on Migration in the 1930s: The Letters of Lucian and Lucie Freud - Rolf Laven: A Pioneer of Children's Art Pedagogy: Franz Cizek and His Influence in the English- Speaking World - Sian Roberts: Hilde Jarecki, Social Pedagogy and the Transformation of Society through Early Years Learning.