Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing / by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha.
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Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi. (författare)
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SpringerLink (Online service)
- ISBN 9783319914152
- Publicerad: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2018
- Engelska XIII, 250 p.
- Relaterad länk:
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http://dx.doi.org/10... (Table of Contents / Abstracts)
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Voluntary/Involuntary Departures: The Complications of Exile and Belonging in Malcolm Cowley and Fawaz Turki -- 3. Centrifugal/Centripetal Movements: Placelessness and the Subversive Tactics of Mobility in Ernest Hemingway and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra -- 4. Voyage In/Voyage Out: The Place of Origin and Identity (Re-) Construction in Gertrude Stein and Edward Said -- 5. Possible/Impossible Returns: The Questions of Roots and Routes in Thomas Wolfe and Mourid Barghouti -- 6. Conclusion.
- This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that, unlike expatriation (a choice of a foreign land over one’s own), exile is a political rather than an artistic concept and is forced rather than voluntary — while exile can be emancipatory, it is always an unwelcome loss. In addition to its historical dimension, exile also entails a different perception of return to expatriation. This book frames expatriates as quintessentially American, particularly intellectuals and artists seeking a space of creativity and social dissidence in the experience of living away from home. At the heart of both literary discourses, however, is a preoccupation with home, belonging, identity, language, mobility and homecoming.
Ämnesord
- Literature. (LCSH)
- Comparative literature. (LCSH)
- Middle Eastern literature. (LCSH)
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century. (LCSH)
- Literature, Modern -- 21st century. (LCSH)
- America -- Literatures. (LCSH)
- Literature.
- Comparative Literature.
- Middle Eastern Literature.
- Postcolonial/World Literature.
- Contemporary Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- North American Literature.
Klassifikation
- PN851-884 (LCC)
- LIT020000 (ämneskategori)
- 809 (DDC)
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