Verschwiegene Gründungsgewalt: Anna Seghers’ Das Licht auf dem Galgen (Fragment, 1948/49).

After returning from exile in Mexico to Germany in spring 1947, Anna Seghers began to write three historical novellas on anti-slavery revolts in the Westindies around 1800. But the cycle Karibische Geschichten (Caribbean Tales) couldn’t be finished before 1960. Seghers had to interrupt writing the t...

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Publicado en:Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Germanistik pp. 43 - 65
Autor principal: Uerlings, Herbert
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Publicado: Transcript Verlag 2020
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