Description
Book SynopsisIs exile a falling away from a source of creativity associated with the wholeness of home and one's own language, or is it a spur to creativity? This book examines the complexities of exile and the diversity of its experiences. It is suitable for those who are interested in the problems of displacement and diaspora and the European Holocaust.
Trade Review“This is a rich and thought-provoking collection of essays about a subject of almost inexhaustible interest: exile as both a physical state and a state of mind, entailing both loss (of homeland, continuity, tradition) and gain (of new experiences, new ideas, new languages). These aspects of exile, which have made it so often a stimulus to writers and artists, are explored here in a fascinating variety of contexts and perspectives, and the collection as a whole maintains a nice balance between personal witness and objective scholarship.”—David Lodge
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Susan Rubin Suleiman 1
Signposts
Exsul / Christine Brooke-Rose 9
Exile as Romance and as Tragedy / Thomas Pavel 25
Art and the Conditions of Exile: Men/Women, Emigration/Expatriation / Linda Nochlin 37
"Mamae, disse ele," or, Joyce's Second Hand / Helene Cixous 59
Letter from Paris (Foreign Mail) / Denis Hollier 89
Travelers
At Home Abroad: El Inca Shuttles with Hebreo / Doris Sommer 109
Gombrowicz's Tango: An Argentine Snapshot / Alicia Borinsky 143
Surrealists in Exile: Another Kind of Resistance / Jacqueline Chenieux-Gendron 163
Jean Renoir's Return to France / Janet Bergstrom 180
A Master of Amazement: Armando's Self-Chosen Exile / Ernst Van Alphen 220
Outsiders
Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky / Svetlana Boym 242
Bakhtin versus Lukacs: Inscriptions of Homelessness in Theories of the Novel / John Neubauer 263
Romain Gary: A Foreign Body in French Literature / Nancy Huston 281
The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile / Henry Louis Gates Jr. 305
Assimilation into Exile: The Jew as a Polish Writer / Zygmunt Bauman 321
Strangerhood without Boundaries: An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge / Tibor Dessewffy 353
Backward Glances
Persistent Memory: Central European Refugees in an Andean Land / Leo Spitzer 373
Monuments in a Foreign Tongue: On Reading Holocaust Memoirs by Emigrants / Susan Rubin Suleiman 397
Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile / Marianne Hirsch 418
Contributors 447
