Abstract
Although clothing has been represented in the arts as self-expression, as signaling community membership, or resistance, Holocaust memoirs intervene. Clothing represented protection or persecution. Trudi Kanter’s memoir Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler dramatizes the transformation of fashion into a woman’s escape plan from Nazi persecution and questions literary meanings of transnational and diaspora. A successful milliner in Vienna when the Anschluss threatened Vienna’s 200,000 Jews, Kanter exploited the patronage of Nazi wives to escape. Instead of celebrating self-determining transnational border crossings and identities, Kanter’s memoir shows how Nazi occupation, with its omnipresent threat of capture, serves as a critique. Kanter’s memoir offers a challenging perspective on representing fashionable literary authorship in the mid-twentieth century.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Fashion and Authorship |
Subtitle of host publication | Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 273-295 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030268985 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030268978 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2020 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities