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Maintaining Relationships and Creating Epistolary Personae

This chapter utilizes the correspondence of a Viennese family fleeing Nazi control of their homeland to illustrate the concept of an epistolary persona. It divides the letter-writing dyads according to gender and generation to chart the silences they employed and the emotions they expressed according to their roles as lovers, siblings, or intergenerational pairs. The writers included three generations of people migrating separately across three continents. Political censorship existed in this World War II refugee collection, but personal censorship played a stronger role, as correspondents sought to maintain emotional ties and avoid psychological trauma for particular recipients by adopting specific epistolary identities.