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Exile and expatriation in modern American and Palestinian writing

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exile and expatriation in modern American and Palestinian writing/ by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha.
Author:	Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xiii, 250 p. :digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Belonging (Social psychology) in literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91415-2
ISBN:	9783319914152

Exile and expatriation in modern American and Palestinian writing
Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi.

Exile and expatriation in modern American and Palestinian writing[electronic resource] /by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xiii, 250 p. :digital ;24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9783319914152

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-91415-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1200268
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.B45 / Q334 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93353

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