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Exile and Creativity - Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances (Paperback, Journal Into Book)
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Exile and Creativity - Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances (Paperback, Journal Into Book)
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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 emigrés,
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 Lukács; 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 emigrés. 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, Hélène 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 Chénieux-Gendron
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