Island: hopes, trials and tribulations in the stories of Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Mira Lobe

Sáez Méndez, Leonor

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Island: hopes, trials and tribulations in the stories of Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Mira Lobe

dc.contributor.author	Sáez Méndez, Leonor
dc.contributor.department	Traducción e Interpretación
dc.contributor.editor	Cagnolati, Antonella
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-26T08:48:44Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-26T08:48:44Z
dc.date.copyright	© Peter Lang GmbH, 2021
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.abstract	Dentro del amplio grupo de la literatura infantil y juvenil austriaca, nos centraremos en dos autoras cuya producción presenta un notable contenido regional y feminista: Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883–1951) y Mira Lobe (1913–1995). La primera fue una aristócrata vienesa; la segunda pertenecía a una familia burguesa judía. Ambas comparten, entre otros aspectos, su sensibilidad social, su pertenencia y posterior distanciamiento crítico del Partido Comunista, su salida de su país debido a la persecución nazi y su migración como consecuencia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hermynia Zur Mühlen por criticar el racismo y defender a los judíos; Mira Lobe por ser judía. Las obras de ambas escritoras integran los dos aspectos que caracterizan la literatura infantil y juvenil: el entretenimiento y una finalidad pedagógica, exigiendo de los lectores una actitud reflexiva. Las aventuras que experimentan los personajes les ayudarán a replantearse a sí mismos y a generar cambios significativos en sus entornos. En sus relatos emplean diversos conceptos: poder, desigualdad social y económica, identidad, racismo y violencia. Sin embargo, también incluyen soluciones solidarias y fraternas, esperanza y cambios sociales a través de transformaciones individuales. La reflexión ética constituye una parte central de sus relatos.
dc.description.abstract	Within the large group of Austrian children's and young people literature, we are going to focus on two authors whose production has a remarkable regional and feminist content: Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951) andMiraLobe {1913-1995). Toe formerwas a Viennese aristocrat; the latter belonged to a Jewish bourgeois family. They both have in common, inter alia, their social sensibility, their belonging to and critica! withdrawal from the Communist Party, their departure from their country dueto the Nazi persecution and their migration as a consequence of the Second World War. Hermynia Zur Mühler for criticising racism and defending the Jews. Mira Lobe for being Jewish. Toe works of both writers integrate the two aspects which characterise children's and young people literature: Entertainment and a pedagogical end, demanding a reflective attitude from readers. Toe adventures which the characters experience will help them rethink themselves and produce significant changes in their environments. In their tales, they employ different concepts: power, social and economic inequality, identity, racism, violence. However, they also include solidary, fraternal solutions, hope and social changes through individual changes. Ethical reflection is a central part of their tales.
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dc.identifier.eisbn	978-3-631-83460-2
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-631-83459-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/214101
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Peter Lang
dc.relation	The present investigation has been done thanks to public aids of the University of Murcia, conceded by the Vice Rectorate of Internationalisation, for the course 2018/2019 assigning subsidies to stay in a foreign centre for a short period of time to carry out international projects.
dc.relation.ispartof	Women and Children's Literature. A Love Affair?
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dc.subject	Austrian tale
dc.subject	Process of liberation
dc.subject	History of mentality
dc.subject	Ethics Hope
dc.subject.ods	Objetivo 5: Igualdad de género y empoderamiento de la mujer
dc.title	Island: hopes, trials and tribulations in the stories of Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Mira Lobe
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