Exile and Creativity (eBook, PDF)

Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances
Redaktion: Susan Rubin Suleiman, Suleiman

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Produktbeschreibung

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 emigres, 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. Recognizing 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 Lukacs; 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 descendents of European emigres. 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, Helene 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822379829
• Artikelnr.: 54789547

Autorenporträt

Susan Rubin Suleiman, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Susan Rubin Suleiman 1
Signposts
Exsul / Christine Brooke-Rose 9
Exile as Romance and as Tragedy / Thomas Pavel 25
Art and the Conditions of Exile: Men/Women, Emigration/Expatriation / Linda
Nochlin 37
"Mamae, disse ele," or, Joyce's Second Hand / Helene Cixous 59
Letter from Paris (Foreign Mail) / Denis Hollier 89
Travelers
At Home Abroad: El Inca Shuttles with Hebreo / Doris Sommer 109
Gombrowicz's Tango: An Argentine Snapshot / Alicia Borinsky 143
Surrealists in Exile: Another Kind of Resistance / Jacqueline
Chenieux-Gendron 163
Jean Renoir's Return to France / Janet Bergstrom 180
A Master of Amazement: Armando's Self-Chosen Exile / Ernst Van Alphen 220
Outsiders
Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky / Svetlana Boym 242
Bakhtin versus Lukacs: Inscriptions of Homelessness in Theories of the
Novel / John Neubauer 263
Romain Gary: A Foreign Body in French Literature / Nancy Huston 281
The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile / Henry Louis Gates Jr. 305
Assimilation into Exile: The Jew as a Polish Writer / Zygmunt Bauman 321
Strangerhood without Boundaries: An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge /
Tibor Dessewffy 353
Backward Glances
Persistent Memory: Central European Refugees in an Andean Land / Leo
Spitzer 373
Monuments in a Foreign Tongue: On Reading Holocaust Memoirs by Emigrants /
Susan Rubin Suleiman 397
Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile / Marianne Hirsch 418
Contributors 447