Description
Prompted by centuries of warfare, political oppression, natural disasters, and economic collapses, exile has had an enormous impact not only on individuals who have undergone transplantation from one culture to another but also on the host societies they have joined and those worlds they have left behind. Written by prominent literary critics, creative authors, and artists, the essays gathered within Exile in Global Literature and Culture: Homes Found and Lost meditate upon the painful journeys—geographic, spiritual, emotional, psychological—brought about due to exilic rupture, loss, and dislocation. Yet exile also fosters potential pleasures and rewards: to extend scholar Martin Tucker’s formulation, wherever the exile might land in flight, he bears with him the sweetness of survival, the triumph of transcendence, the luxury of liminality, and the invitation to innovate and invent in new lands. Indeed, exile embodies both blessing and curse, homes found and lost. Furthermore, this book adheres to (and tests) the premise that exile‘s deepest and innermost currents are manifested through writing and other artistic forms.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Overreaching Arc of Exile
Asher Z. Milbauer and James M. Sutton
Chapter 1: Exile and Return in Jewish Teaching and Tradition
David Patterson
Chapter 2: Exile, Dislocation and Roman Identity in the Age of Augustus
Sarah T. Cohen
Chapter 3: "I Am not What I Am": Considerations of Shakespearean Exile
James M. Sutton
Chapter 4: The Problem of Exile for James Joyce
Michael Patrick Gillespie
Chapter 5: José Martí: Just Another Face in the Crowd
Uva de Aragón
Chapter 6: Exile as Metaphor and Memory: The Case of Salman Rushdie
Martin Tucker
Chapter 7: The Reluctant Exile: Remembering the Exilic Legacy of the Hungarian Jewish Poet,
Miklós Radnóti
Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Chapter 8: Elie Wiesel: Writer as Witness to and in Exile
Alan L. Berger
Chapter 9: Exiled from the Mother Tongue: Russian Writers Abroad
David Markish
Chapter 10: The Exiled Language
Norman Manea
Chapter 11: Dreamers and Lifers: Exile Terminable and Interminable
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Chapter 12: Of Poetry, Place, and Personhood: or the Exacting Resonances of Language
Abena P. A. Busia
Chapter 13: Landscapes and Geographies of Chilean Exile
Marjorie Agosín
Chapter 14: On the State of Exile Studies: Past, Present and Future
Guy Stern
Chapter 15: Traveling with My Selves
Ana Menéndez
Chapter 16: Mirages of Imaginary Exile
Richard Blanco
Chapter 17: The Literature of Exile: Reading and Teaching
Holli Levitsky
Chapter 18: An Interview with Cuban-American Artist, Humberto Calzada: Exile, Nostalgia and
the Art of Memory
Asher Z. Milbauer and James M. Sutton
Contributor’s Biographies
Index
