Exiles and Migrants Crossing Thresholds in European Culture and Society

by Coulson, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781898723691
• ISBN10: 1898723699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

A collection of essays looking at the themes of exile and migration in European culture from the 17th to the 20th century

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Demarcation and Assimilation: Socio-Cultural Encounters in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
A Frank in the Ottoman Empire: the Case of the Chevalier d'Arvieux	p. 23
Voloumous deamboulare: the Wandering Irish in French Literature, 1600-1789	p. 32
Between Exile and Assimilation: Languages and Identity in German-Jewish Texts around 1848	p. 43
Europe's Homeless: A Century of Exile
Land of the Fair, Land of the Free? The Myth of America in Irish Folklore	p. 57
From George Moore to Brian Moore: Irish Writers making a Fetish of Exile	p. 72
Enlightened Humanism Defeated: German Writers, Writings and Ideas in Exile, 1933-41	p. 83
Klaus Mann's Novel The Volcano - a Document of German Emigration after 1933	p. 91
'There is no history here': Marguerite Yourcenar's American Exile	p. 101
Varieties of Exile: Stefan Schutz's Novel Katt	p. 111
Europe and its Other: The Colonial Legacy and Ethnicity
Things Fall Apart: the Portrayal of African Identity in Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson and Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease	p. 125
The Dialogue of Exile: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure ambigue	p. 136
Three Generations of Francophone North African Writers in Exile: Driss Chraibi, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Mehdi Charef	p. 144
Images of Difference: The Portrayal of Ethnic Minorities in German Cinema since Fassbinder	p. 154
Issues of Language and Identity: The Text as Location and Mediation
Stotious boats: Exile in Irish Translations of Rimbaud's Bateau ivre	p. 175
Julien Green: Expatrie et Sudiste	p. 185
On Locating the Narrative Voice in Intercultural Literature: Franco Biondi's Die Unversohnlichen	p. 193
J.-M. G. Le Clezio, Writer of Exile. A Treatment of Childhood and Exile in Desert and Etoile Errante	p. 201
Language and Culture Crossing: the Ethnographic Bridge	p. 212
The Contributors	p. 223
Index	p. 226
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