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Palgrave Macmillan
Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing
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9783319914145
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9783319914145
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Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing
$97.68
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.
| Author: Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha |
| Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan |
| Publication Date: Jun 04, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 250 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 3319914146 |
| ISBN-13: 9783319914145 |
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