1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996199792703316

Titolo

A passion for policy : essays in public sector reform / / edited by John Wanna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-921313-35-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s)

Collana

ANSOG monographs

Disciplina

320.60994

Soggetti

Political planning - Australia

Public administration - Australia

Australia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of papers is concerned with issues of policy development, practice, implementation and performance. It represents a range of views about diverse subjects by individuals who are, for the most part, in the public eye and who have the capacity to influence the shape and the reality of public policy. Each has a story to tell, with insights that can only be drawn by those working at the ‘sharp end’ of policy.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300025003321

Autore

Qabaha Ahmad Rasmi

Titolo

Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing / / by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319914152

3319914154

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

809.8920691

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Middle Eastern literature

Literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

America - Literatures

Comparative Literature

Middle Eastern Literature

World Literature

Contemporary Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.