works Her First American

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Titel Her First American
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ID 9807
Type publication >> novel
Date 1985
Collection(s)
  • Narratives of Encounters in the North Atlantic Triangle
  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/9807/
    Notes In this novel, her alter ego Ilka (here: Weissnix), a Jewish refugee from Vienna arriving in New York. Disappointed by the similarity (and dissimilarity) of New York to pre-war Vienna, Ilka heads to the West in search of the "real" America, meeting "her fist American" in Nevada.
    References Boddy, Kasia. "Weissnix: Lore Segal and Her First American.“ Narratives of Encounter. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2015, 309-323.

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    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    related >> won American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
    1980 1983 related >> was published by The New Yorker

    Person

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    1985 related >> was/were written by >> written by Segal, Lore
    related >> features/featured >> features as fictionalized character Cayton, Horace

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