Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs
by
Jennifer M. Hoyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based...