Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing [[electronic resource] /] / by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha

• Autore: Qabaha Ahmad Rasmi
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II