Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-08248-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Exilliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmad Qabaha is Assistant Professor in Postcolonial, Comparative and American Studies at An-Najah National University in Palestine and its current Director in Minor in American Studies Program. He has published various works in his fields of study, and he is currently working with Dr Rachel Fox on his second monograph Post-millennial Palestine: Memory, Narration, Resistance.