03636nam 22006735 450 991030002500332120230810194359.09783319914152331991415410.1007/978-3-319-91415-2(CKB)4100000004243986(MiAaPQ)EBC5400818(DE-He213)978-3-319-91415-2(Perlego)3491105(EXLCZ)99410000000424398620180523d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierExile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing /by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (260 pages)9783319914145 3319914146 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.Comparative literatureMiddle Eastern literatureLiteratureLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryAmericaLiteraturesComparative LiteratureMiddle Eastern LiteratureWorld LiteratureContemporary LiteratureTwentieth-Century LiteratureNorth American LiteratureComparative literature.Middle Eastern literature.Literature.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernAmericaLiteratures.Comparative Literature.Middle Eastern Literature.World Literature.Contemporary Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.North American Literature.809.8920691Qabaha Ahmad Rasmiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut963810BOOK9910300025003321Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing2185741UNINA