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9780822322153

Exile and Creativity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822322153

  • ISBN10:

    0822322153

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

A major historical phenomenon of our century, exile has been a focal point for reflections about individual and cultural identity and problems of nationalism, racism, and war. Whether emigrés, exiles, expatriates, refugees, or nomads, these people all experience a distance from their homes and often their native languages. Exile and Creativity brings together the widely varied perspectives of nineteen distinguished European and American scholars and cultural critics to ask: Is 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? In essays that range chronologically from the Renaissance to the 1990s, geographically from the Danube to the Andes, and historically from the Inquisition to the Holocaust, the complexities and tensions of exile and the diversity of its experiences are examined. Recognising exile as an interior experience as much as a physical displacement, this collection discusses such varied topics as intellectual exile and seventeenth-century French literature; different versions of home and of the novel in the writings of Bakhtin and Lukcs; the displacement of James Joyce and Clarice Lispector; a young journalist's meeting with James Baldwin in the south of France; Jean Renoir's Hollywood years; and reflections by the descendants of European emigrés. Strikingly, many of the essays are themselves the work of exiles, bearing out once more the power of the personal voice in scholarship. With the exception of the contribution by Henry Louis Gates Jr., these essays were originally published in a special double issue of Poetics Today in 1996. Exile and Creativity will engage a range of readers from those whose specific interests include the problems of displacement and diaspora and the European Holocaust to those whose broad interests include art, literary and cultural studies, history, film, and the nature of human creativity. Contributors. Zygmunt Bauman, Janet Bergstrom, Christine Brooke-Rose, Hélene Cixous, Tibor Dessewffy, Marianne Hirsch, Denis Hollier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Linda Nochlin, Leo Spitzer, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Thomas Pavel, Doris Sommer, Nancy Huston, John Neubauer, Ernst van Alphen, Alicia Borinsky, Svetlana Boym, Jacqueline Chenieux-Gendron Susan Rubin Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilisation of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherhood.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Signposts
Exsul
Exile as Romance and as Tragedy
Art and the Conditions of Exile: Men/Women, Emigration/Expatriation
"Mamae, disse ele," or, Joyce's Second Hand
Letter from Paris (Foreign Mail)
Travelers
At Home Abroad: El Inca Shuttles with Hebreo
Gombrowicz's Tango: An Argentine Snapshot
Surrealists in Exile: Another Kind of Resistance
Jean Renoir's Return to France
A Master of Amazement: Armando's Self-Chosen Exile
Outsiders
Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky
Bakhtin versus Lukacs: Inscriptions of Homelessness in Theories of the Novel
Romain Gary: A Foreign Body in French Literature
The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile
Assimilation into Exile: The Jew as a Polish Writer
Strangerhood without Boundaries: An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge
Backward Glances
Persistent Memory: Central European Refugees in an Andean Land
Monuments in a Foreign Tongue: On Reading Holocaust Memoirs by Emigrants
Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile
Contributors
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