Back to the Future? Migration at the Intersection of the Past and the Pre-sent, Facts and Fiction in Eveline Hasler’s "Ibicaba: Das Paradies in den Köpfen" (1985)
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Hasler, Eveline, Ibicaba, Brazil, Nineteenth-Century Swiss Emigration, Women’s History of Migration, Postcolonial Critique, Human Rights.
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This article analyzes Eveline Hasler’s historical novel Ibicaba: Das Paradies in den Köpfen (1985) as a commentary on the political debates on nineteenth-century emigration. Transforming historical facts into fiction, Ibicaba contains socio-psychological and philosophical reflections on human rights and mobility, a postcolonial critique of European settlements abroad, as well as a call for a women’s history of migration. Moreover, this article interprets Hasler’s novel as an invitation to question Heimat and identity constructions in today’s globalized world.Downloads
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Rosmarie Kathöfer G. (2018). Back to the Future? Migration at the Intersection of the Past and the Pre-sent, Facts and Fiction in Eveline Hasler’s "Ibicaba: Das Paradies in den Köpfen" (1985). Revista de Filología Alemana, 26, 139-153. https://doi.org/10.5209/RFAL.60146
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