Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe

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Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe is written by Martyn Housden and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 183695316X (ISBN 10) and 9781836953166 (ISBN 13).

The lived experiences of two authors, Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen, provide a fascinating lens into the reality of migration and identity in twentieth-century Europe. Forced to leave their Baltic homeland and forge new lives in Germany, both authors contended with life under the Nazi regime and the social upheaval that took place after its fall. In this illuminating examination of the relationship between migration and literature, Martyn Housden interrogates how the experience of displacement informed the authorship of each figure. By charting how their writing interpolated the period’s many ruptures, this study offers an unrivalled insight into the complexities of identity and nationhood in a conflict-torn continent.