Jacqueline Vansant. Reclaiming Heim...

Jacqueline Vansant. Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by means of Jewish Austrian Reemigres. Detroit: Wayne State UP 2001 204 pp ISBN 0-8143-2951-9 $3495

In the acknowledgements which preface her work on Austrian reemigres, Jacqueline Vansant informs us that "in addition to learning the dialogic nature of writing a work I have also come to realize the importance of not taking myself too seriously when working forward a very serious project." Indeed, what is striking about this contribution to exile and memoir studies is the retiring disposition of its approach, always