Andrea Hammel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5645262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Hammel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammel |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aberystwyth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6764-923X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I Believe That My Experience Began in the Womb and Was Later Absorbed Through My Mother's Milk’: Second Generation Trauma Narratives
This contribution analyses texts written by the descendants of Holocaust survivors and former refugees who have contributed to the newsletter of the Second Generation Network based in Britain. Examination of this material demonstrates how these postmemory trauma narratives add to our understanding of Holocaust and Refugee Studies. The ongoing impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations descended from survivors and refugees suggests that it …
Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press
This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled Exile and Gender: Literature and the Press, edited by Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel, focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists as well as on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers. The contributions are in English or German. The seventeen contributions set out to both celebrat…
Exile and gender I: Literature and the Press
Gender and Kindertransport Memoirs
This contribution examines the role of gender regarding memoirs by former Kindertransportees and other child refugees who fled to the UK. It will discuss the different experiences of male and female Kindertransportees and the different ways male and female authors represent these experiences, and the issue of memoirs as social history sources as well as literary narratives. Embedding the discussion in wider debates on Holocaust Studies and memory…
Exile and Everyday Life
Exile and Everyday Life focusses on the everyday life experience of refugees fleeing National Socialism in the 1930s and 1940s as well as the representation of this experience in literature and culture. The contributions in this volume show experiences of loss, strategies of adaptation and the creation of a new identity and life. It covers topics such as Exile in Shanghai, Ireland, the US and the UK, food in exile, the writers Gina Kaus, Vicki Ba…
The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: New Perspectives
This volume examines the Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39. The seventeen contributions provide various new perspectives, which are investigated for the first time in this volume. Chapters focus on the Kindertransport in British historiography, on the identity development of specific groups of Kindertransportees, on the Kindertransportees’ further migration pattern, and on Kindertransport literature. Further contributions include a comparative s…
Between Adult Narrator and Narrated Child: Autobiographical Writing by Former Members of the Kindertransporte
This essay uses several autobiographical texts by former members of the Kindertransporte to discuss the tension between institutional history and personal life stories in relation to a number of issues present in these texts. Authenticity, group identity, the cultural construct of the ‘child’ concept and the fragmented self are examined within the framework of Holocaust memoir writing and cultural and autobiographical theory. The essay argues for…
Emigration as Rescue and Trauma: The Historical Context of the Kindertransport
Emigration as Rescue and Trauma:The Historical Context of the Kindertransport Wolfgang Benz (bio) Translated by Andrea Hammel (bio) Why did the majority of German Jews not escape the impending catastrophe caused by Hitler and the National Socialists by fleeing from Hitler's sphere of influence? Those who ask this naïve question neither think about the economical and administrative difficulties which stand in the way of emigration nor do they cons…
The Destabilisation of Personal Histories: Rewriting and Translating Autobiographical Texts by German-Jewish Survivors
The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: New Perspectives
This volume examines the Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39. The seventeen contributions provide various new perspectives, which are investigated for the first time in this volume. Chapters focus on the Kindertransport in British historiography, on the identity development of specific groups of Kindertransportees, on the Kindertransportees’ further migration pattern, and on Kindertransport literature. Further contributions include a comparative s…
The Destabilisation of Personal Histories: Rewriting and Translating Autobiographical Texts by German-Jewish Survivors
Emigration as Rescue and Trauma: The Historical Context of the Kindertransport
Emigration as Rescue and Trauma:The Historical Context of the Kindertransport Wolfgang Benz (bio) Translated by Andrea Hammel (bio) Why did the majority of German Jews not escape the impending catastrophe caused by Hitler and the National Socialists by fleeing from Hitler's sphere of influence? Those who ask this naïve question neither think about the economical and administrative difficulties which stand in the way of emigration nor do they cons…
The Destabilisation of Personal Histories: Rewriting and Translating Autobiographical Texts by German-Jewish Survivors
Between Adult Narrator and Narrated Child: Autobiographical Writing by Former Members of the Kindertransporte
This essay uses several autobiographical texts by former members of the Kindertransporte to discuss the tension between institutional history and personal life stories in relation to a number of issues present in these texts. Authenticity, group identity, the cultural construct of the ‘child’ concept and the fragmented self are examined within the framework of Holocaust memoir writing and cultural and autobiographical theory. The essay argues for…
The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: New Perspectives
This volume examines the Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39. The seventeen contributions provide various new perspectives, which are investigated for the first time in this volume. Chapters focus on the Kindertransport in British historiography, on the identity development of specific groups of Kindertransportees, on the Kindertransportees’ further migration pattern, and on Kindertransport literature. Further contributions include a comparative s…
Exile and Everyday Life
Exile and Everyday Life focusses on the everyday life experience of refugees fleeing National Socialism in the 1930s and 1940s as well as the representation of this experience in literature and culture. The contributions in this volume show experiences of loss, strategies of adaptation and the creation of a new identity and life. It covers topics such as Exile in Shanghai, Ireland, the US and the UK, food in exile, the writers Gina Kaus, Vicki Ba…
Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press
This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled Exile and Gender: Literature and the Press, edited by Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel, focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists as well as on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers. The contributions are in English or German. The seventeen contributions set out to both celebrat…
Exile and gender I: Literature and the Press
Gender and Kindertransport Memoirs
This contribution examines the role of gender regarding memoirs by former Kindertransportees and other child refugees who fled to the UK. It will discuss the different experiences of male and female Kindertransportees and the different ways male and female authors represent these experiences, and the issue of memoirs as social history sources as well as literary narratives. Embedding the discussion in wider debates on Holocaust Studies and memory…
I Believe That My Experience Began in the Womb and Was Later Absorbed Through My Mother's Milk’: Second Generation Trauma Narratives
This contribution analyses texts written by the descendants of Holocaust survivors and former refugees who have contributed to the newsletter of the Second Generation Network based in Britain. Examination of this material demonstrates how these postmemory trauma narratives add to our understanding of Holocaust and Refugee Studies. The ongoing impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations descended from survivors and refugees suggests that it …
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