«And How Do You Like This Country?»

Stories of New Zealand- Edited by Friedrich Voit and with an Essay by Livia Käthe Wittmann
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-631-59850-4
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Reihe: Germanica Pacifica

These stories by Otti Binswanger, the niece of the German aviator Otto Lilienthal, were written in the 1940s in New Zealand, where they were published originally in 1945. Otti Binswanger had come to New Zealand in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany together with her husband Paul Binswanger, a German-Jewish scholar of Romance Languages. These stories constitute an important and highly original contribution not only to New Zealand literature, but also to the corpus of literature by exiles in the 20th century. In her stories Otti Binswanger creates an authentic, sympathetic, and at the same time critical portrait of the country and its people as she encountered them as an immigrant. They are «inside stories» with the eye of an outsider written in the clear and matter-of-fact style of the period.
The essay by Livia Käthe Wittmann (Christchurch/NZ) gives an introduction to both the stories as well as to the multi-facetted personality and life of Otti Binswanger.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voit, Friedrich

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bade, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur Deutsche Literatur außerhalb deutschsprachiger Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: New Zealand Literature – 1940s – Exile and immigration – Life and work of Otti Binswanger.

Über Autor(innen)

The Editor: Friedrich Voit teaches in the School of European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland (New Zealand).