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Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances by Susan Rubin Suleiman

Authors: Susan Rubin Suleiman (Editor), Christine Brooke-Rose (Contribution by), Thomas Pavel (Contribution by), Denis Hollier (Contribution by), Doris Sommer
ISBN-13: 9780822322153, ISBN-10: 0822322153
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Susan Rubin Suleiman

Susan Rubin Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization 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.

Book Synopsis

Essays from prominent critics on exile, displacement and homelessness.

Boston Review

[Essays] discuss the pain -- and, often, pleasure -- of forgiveness with rare subtelty and humanist solidarity.

	Introduction	1
	Exsul	9
	Exile as Romance and as Tragedy	25
	Art and the Conditions of Exile: Men/Women, Emigration/Expatriation	37
	"Mamae, disse ele," or, Joyce's Second Hand	59
	Letter from Paris (Foreign Mail)	89
	At Home Abroad: El Inca Shuttles with Hebreo	109
	Gombrowicz's Tango: An Argentine Snapshot	143
	Surrealists in Exile: Another Kind of Resistance	163
	Jean Renoir's Return to France	180
	A Master of Amazement: Armando's Self-Chosen Exile	220
	Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky	241
	Bakhtin versus Lukacs: Inscriptions of Homelessness in Theories of the Novel	263
	Romain Gary: A Foreign Body in French Literature	281
	The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile	305
	Assimilation into Exile: The Jew as a Polish Writer	321
	Strangerhood without Boundaries: An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge	353
	Persistent Memory: Central European Refugees in an Andean Land	373
	Monuments in a Foreign Tongue: On Reading Holocaust Memoirs by Emigrants	397
	Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile	418
	Contributors	447