European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that
address the writers' universal existential dilemma, when viewed
through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I
write, and to whom? While we often understand the term "exile" to
refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home
country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be
defined so narrowly, and the contributors to this volume explore a
range of interesting and evolving definitions. Various countries in
Europe have long been both a refuge for people and writers from
many countries and a strife-torn region which has forced many to
flee within the continent or beyond it. The phrase "in exile"
involves writers moving across borders in multiple directions and
for multiple reasons, including for reasons of duress or personal
quest, and these themes are addressed and critiqued in these
essays. This volume naturally examines the cataclysmic and
near-universal exilic experiences relating to the world wars,
including essays on Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Hannah Arendt
and Leo Strauss. Additionally, essays address the unique early
twentieth-century experiences of Emile Zola, Franz Kafka, Joseph
Conrad, and James Joyce. More contemporary essay subjects include
Milan Kundera, Norman Manea, Eva Hoffman, Caryl Phillips, and W. G.
Sebald. This collection of transnational, globalized European
literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our
contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural,
historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. How does
literary production in an increasingly globalized world-when seen
from exile-affect a view back towards a country or region left
behind? Or, conversely, how does exile push a writer to look
outward to new (trans-)nationalized space(s)? These and other
questions are important to investigate. Taken in sum, European
Writers in Exile offers an academically rigorous, important, and
cohesive volume.
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