Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on , Korbel, Strobl..

Taylor & Francis

The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as \""cultural mediators\"" or \""agents of knowledge\"" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case studies provided in this volume are of global scope, focusing on routes of escape and migration to Iceland, Italy, the Near East, Portugal and Shanghai, and South-, Central-, and North America. The chapters examine the hybrid ways refugees envisaged, managed, organized, and subsequently mediated their migrations. It focuses on how they dealt with their escape in their art and science. The chapters ask how the emigrants located themselves\u2013\u2013did they associate with ethnic, religious, and/or cultural affiliations, specific social classes, or specific parts of society\u2014and how suc.