Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing / / by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
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| Autore: |
Qabaha Ahmad Rasmi
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| Titolo: |
Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing / / by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
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| 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 | |
| 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: | 9783319914152 |
| 3319914154 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910300025003321 |
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