Edward Said once noted that ""exile is compelling to think about,
but terrible to experience."" The Dispossessed, a collection of
thoughtful essays and critical commentaries on the meaning of
exile, reverberates with the significance of Said's terse comment.
After a foreword by actor and activist Liv Ullmann and an
introduction by Peter I. Rose, the reader is offered a series of
essays examining the experiences of refugees in various parts of
the world, with particular attention to the disruptions caused by
World War II. Contributors explore the politics of rescue, the
dependency of the dispossessed, the role of key players and
concerned citizens willing to extend themselves to provide safe
havens and new opportunities for those forced to flee their
homelands, and examples of the contributions of refugees,
particularly refugee intellectuals, to their host societies.
Throughout the volume there are two unifying motifs: the plight of
displaced people, be they escapees, expellees, or hapless victims
caught in the crossfire of other people's conflicts, and the role
of others in attempting to mitigate the predicaments of the
displaced. The book is divided into four sections. The first
explores the meaning of ""home"" for those forced to leave it. The
second section focuses on the experiences of a small cohort of
rescuers who lived in western Massachusetts in the 1930s and 1940s
or had connections to Smith College and other institution in the
area. The third section details the problems of adjustment and the
cultural impact of scientists, artists, filmmakers, and writers on
their host societies in the years before, during, and immediately
after World War II. A brief fourth section consists of the
reflections of two more recent refugees, a Cuban father and son,
the elder a psychiatrist and poet, the younger a sociologist who
specializes in immigration and the plight of the dispossessed. The
contributors to this volume were all faculty and fellows of a
year-long colloquium, ""The Anatomy of Exile,"" at Smith College or
participants in one of two conferences held in conjunction with the
colloquium. They include Dierdre Bonifaz, Lale Aka Burk, Polina
Dimova, Donna Robinson Divine, Saverio Giovacchini, Ruth Gruber,
Gertraud E. G. Gutzmann, Charles Killinger, Karen Koehler, Orm
Overland, Thalia Pandiri, Ruben D. Rumbaut and Ruben G. Rumbaut,
Richard Unsworth, and Krishna Winston.
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