This talk will take us from the from occupied Europe to North Africa, the Caribbean, and from there to Mexico. I will trace the escape route of German writer Anna Seghers (1900-1983) and discuss how a relatively brief stay in Martinique and then a much longer friendship with Cuban designer Clara Porset (1895-1981) shaped Seghers’s life and work.
Speaker:
Tabea Linhard is a Professor of Spanish, Global Studies, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on displacement and asylum experiences in the 1930s and 1940s, and she has published extensively on Spanish and Mexican literature and film, Memory Studies, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.