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Autore: | Qabaha Ahmad Rasmi |
Titolo: | Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing / / by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha |
Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2018. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
Disciplina: | 809.8920691 |
Soggetto topico: | Comparative literature |
Middle Eastern literature | |
Literature | |
Literature, Modern—20th century | |
Literature, Modern—21st century | |
America—Literatures | |
Comparative Literature | |
Middle Eastern Literature | |
Postcolonial/World Literature | |
Contemporary Literature | |
Twentieth-Century Literature | |
North American Literature | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing |
ISBN: | 3-319-91415-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910300025003321 |
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