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Creativity in exile /

Creativity in exile / edited by Michael Hanne. - 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations. - Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 29 . - Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 29. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material / Creativity and Exile: An Introduction / Poem: ‘Can You Tell Me?’ / Burundi Drummers: Performance / Resisting the Anomie: Exile and the Romantic Self / Interview and Poems: ‘Ode to Joy’, ‘1971’, ‘People Like Us’ / Poem for Chris Abani: ‘Parts of Speech’ / Film: Three Riders of the Apocalypse / Exile and the Philosophical Challenge to Citizenship / Exile, Empire and the Convict Diaspora: The Return of Magwitch / Exile at the Edges of Empire: Contemporary Writing in Portuguese / Audio Installation with Sculptural Images ‘Thought Exiled from the Tongue’ / Catastrophe, Memory, and Testimony in Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman / American Literary Exiles: The Escape from Anguish / Interview, Poems, and a Short Story: ‘Fingers’, ‘Kyrenia’, ‘Don’t Forget’, and ‘Ledra Street’ / The Poetics of Exile in the Inter-war Novels of Irina Odoevtseva / Interview and Poems: ‘Refugees’, ‘Coming to Paradise’, ‘Immigrant Architectures’, ‘My Life in Two Parts’, ‘In the Shadow of the Bridge’ / The Myth of the Great Return: Memory, Longing and Forgetting in Milan Kundera’s Ignorance / Exile in Redemption: S.Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday / Exile and Revolt: Arab and Afro-American Poets in Dialogue / Annexing the Land of Exile: Language and History in the Work of Assia Djebar / Creating a Poetics in Exile: The Development of an Ethnic Palestinian-American Culture / Poems: ‘Do not live a day in a homeland’s memory’ and ‘O fire be peaceful’ / Poem for Basim Furat, Emad Jabbar and Yilma Tafere Tasew: ‘Exiles’ / Exile and Memory: Re-membering Home After the Partition of Bengal / Film Excerpts: A Taste of Place: Stories of Food and Longing / Food and the Exile / The Other Side of Exile: Malaysian Writers Who Stayed Behind / The Cultivation of Exile: Qi Biaojia and his Allegory Mountain / A Sense of Place: Colombian Artists on Violence and Exile / Fading into Metaphor: Globalization and the Disappearance of Exile / Michael Hanne -- Michael Hanne -- Yilma Tafere Tasew -- Michael Hanne -- Chris Abani -- Chris Abani -- Kapka Kassabova -- Shahin Yazdani -- Farhang Erfani and John Whitmire -- Kirsty Reid -- Isabel Moutinho -- Dolleen Manning -- Hsinya Huang -- Peter Karsten -- Nora Nadjarian -- Xenia Srebrianski Harwell -- Kapka Kassabova -- Fiona J. Doloughan -- Arnold J. Band -- Saddik Gohar -- Trudy Agar -- Nir Yehudai -- Emad Jabbar -- Nora Nadjarian -- Urbashi Barat -- Shuchi Kothari and Sarina Pearson -- Hilary Funnell -- Zawiah Yahya -- Duncan Campbell -- Marta Jimena Cabrera -- Rudolphus Teeuwen.

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Until recently, discussion of ‘creativity in exile’ has focussed almost exclusively on a few European male writers, from Dante to Joseph Brodsky, who sought refuge abroad from political oppression. This volume, with accompanying 100-minute DVD, ranges much more widely, to examine the extraordinary creative endeavours in a range of media of men and women in almost every part of the world who, for a host of different reasons, have experienced displacement from their homelands. It brings together papers by academics, many of whom have experienced exile themselves, on topics as diverse as: the visual arts in Colombia, fiction by displaced indigenous peoples, convicts and slaves as exiles, writings about the partition of Bengal, the culture of Palestinian Americans, philosophers on exile, and the significance of cooking to refugee communities, which are interspersed with poems by contemporary writers in exile. The use of the DVD format has permitted the inclusion of: studio interviews with notable exiled writers from Nigeria, Cyprus and Bulgaria, extracts from two films relating to exile, a live reading of his work by an Iraqi poet, an audio and sculptural installation by a First Nations Canadian artist, and a performance by musicians in exile from Burundi.

9789004333741

10.1163/9789004333741 DOI


Authors, Exiled.
Exiles' writings--History and criticism.
Exiles (Punishment) in literature.

PN495 / .C74 2004

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