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Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond

2007-02-28 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond by : Jan Felix Gaertner

Download or read book Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond written by Jan Felix Gaertner. This book was released on 2007-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile and displacement are central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory literature, Latin epic, Greek literature of the empire, and Medieval Latin literature, the present volume questions the notion of a distinct, psychologically conditioned ‘genre’ or ‘mode’ of exile literature. It shows how ancient and medieval authors perceive and present their exile according to pre-existent literary paradigms, style themselves or others as ‘typical’ exiles, and employ ‘exile’ as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.

Altogether Elsewhere

1996-03-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1996-03-01
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Book Synopsis Altogether Elsewhere by : Marc Robinson

Download or read book Altogether Elsewhere written by Marc Robinson. This book was released on 1996-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Exile

2007 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2007
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Book Synopsis Writing Exile by : Jan Felix Gaertner

Download or read book Writing Exile written by Jan Felix Gaertner. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores how Greek and Latin authors perceive and present their own (real or metaphorical) exile and employ exile as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.

Seeking Palestine

2013-10-01 History
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Release : 2013-10-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Seeking Palestine by : Penny (ed.) Johnson

Download or read book Seeking Palestine written by Penny (ed.) Johnson. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian oppression? How can exile and home be written? In this volume of new writing, fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers—essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists and memoirists—respond with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics. Their contributions—poignant, humorous, intimate, reflective, intensely political—make for an offering that is remarkable for the candor and grace with which it explores the many individual and collective experiences of waiting, living for, and seeking Palestine. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Rana Barakat, Mourid Barghouti, Beshara Doumani, Sharif S. Elmusa, Rema Hammami, Mischa Hiller, Emily Jacir, Penny Johnson, Fady Joudah, Jean Said Makdisi, Karma Nabulsi, Raeda Sa’adeh, Raja Shehadeh, Adania Shibli.

Exile

2019-06-27 Political Science
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Release : 2019-06-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Exile by : Belén Fernández

Download or read book Exile written by Belén Fernández. This book was released on 2019-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekking—through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America—to packing avocados in southern Spain, to close encounters with a variety of unpredictable men, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years Fernández survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enabling—as of the present moment—continued survival. In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Belén Fernández has established herself as a one of the most trenchant observers of America’s interventions around the world, following in the footsteps of great foreign correspondents such as Martha Gellhorn and Susan Sontag.

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