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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Regina U. Hahn
THE DEMOCRATIC DREAM: STEFAN HEYM IN AMERICA
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003.
148 pp. Exile Studies. An Interdisciplinary Series. Vol. 10 Edited by
Alexander Stephan
ISBN 3-906768-53-8 / US-ISBN 0-8204-5865-1 pb.
sFr. 51.00 / EUR* 34.60 / EUR** 32.30 / £ 21.00 / US-$ 31.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
As the young editor of the New York based "Deutsches Volksecho", Stefan
Heym had to reconcile his responsibility as a journalist with his
personal animosity towards the Nazi State and the disillusionment felt
by exiles during the Great Depression. The result of this
reconciliation, which drew upon his experience as a writer in pre World
War II Germany and the democratic ideals of his newly adopted country,
was a philosophy of democracy, citizenship and public debate that
guided Heym's literary and political activities through the rest of his
life.
Identifying this philosophy as a precursor to Habermas' theory of the
public sphere, "The Democratic Dream" traces the development of Heym's
beliefs through his writings at the "Deutsches Volksecho" and its
further evolution through Heym's early American novels: "Hostages",
"The Crusaders" and "Goldsborough".
Contents: Stefan Heym: "Hostages", "The Crusaders", "Goldsborough" -
German Exile Literature - Antifascists in the U.S. - Participatory
democracy and the public sphere - "Deutsches Volksecho" - Antifascist
German Americans.
The Author: Regina U. Hahn (1953) holds a B.A. from Bucknell
University, a "Staatsexamen" and an M.A. from Heidelberg University in
Germany and a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. She has taught at
Toyei Boarding School in the Navaho Reservation, at Bucknell
University, at The University of Chicago and since 1995 serves as
Assistant Professor at DePaul University in Chicago.
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