Beschreibung:
<jats:p>This case study on the work of the Prague-born, German-Jewish author and screenplay writer Willy Haas while in exile in India (1939–1947) – introduced here only briefly – illustrates how, in the process of translation from one culture to another, categories of “other” and “self” retreat behind a processuality of cultural negotiation, interference and productive translation – in other words, it illustrates how they enter into processes of a cultural production that is indelibly marked by social as well as artistic interactions and institutional infrastructures as well as conditions of material, economic-political transmission through the media, generating a cultural production that is thus able to provide a basis for and support a dynamic understanding of culture, both theoretically and practically.</jats:p>