Cultures of Exile: Visual Images of Displacement, Vol. 7 »

Eleven British and Canadian academics provide multiple perspectives and wide-ranging analyses exploring exile as the major defining experience of the modern world. Exile is considered not only in terms of the spatial and temporal estrangement of individuals from their place and time of origin, but also within the realm of remembering and forgetting, trauma and nostalgia, and social and sexual exclusion in relation to visual media and new technologies, cinema and the visual arts. The essays invite readers to "question and re-examine notions of heterogeneity, fragmentation, and the difficulty of access or return to an ontological center." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR