Exile Literature

“La lingua salvata”: il ruolo di Dante nell’inedito libro di un mercante in esilio.

by Gennaro Ferrante

Published in "Leggere Dante oggi". Atti del Convegno del Centro Pio Rajna (Casa di Dante in Roma - 25-27/10/2010), Roma, Salerno editrice, pp. 265-296.

Epistolography (Blackwell Companion to Ancient Sexuality)

by Owen Hodkinson

draft chapter (currently 1000 words too long). comments only welcome if they involve removing not adding!

The Journey Home: Language, Exile and Identity in Clarisse Nicoïdski’s Lus Ojus Las Manus La Boca

by Celine Piser

"What Do the Nations Have To Do With 'All Israel'? A Fresh Look at Romans 11:25-26"

by Jason Staples

Journal of Biblical Literature 130.2 (2011): 371–90

Paper available here: Paper available here: http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Staples-All-Israel-JBL.pdf

David's Tent as Temple in Amos 9:11-15: Understanding the Epilogue of Amos and Considering Implications For The Unity of the Book

by John Anthony Dunne

Published in Westminster Theological Journal 73.2 (Fall 2011): 363-374

Self-Exile and the Career of Marc Chagall

by Kristine Ronan

The Hedgehog Review 7:3 (Fall 2005)

Covers Marc Chagall's early years in Russia in connection with his imagery of homes. Covers Marc Chagall's early years in Russia in connection with his imagery of homes.

"Island is not far". Zur Konstruktion von Insularität, Ausschluss und Exil auf Angel Island, 1910-1940

by Ruth Mayer

forthcoming in: Literatur und Exil. Neue Perspektiven. Hg. Doerte Bischoff, Susanne Komfort-Hein. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012]

Der Aufsatz geht von der Negativität des Exilsbegriffs im kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs der Gegenwart aus, die sich... more Der Aufsatz geht von der Negativität des Exilsbegriffs im kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs der Gegenwart aus, die sich einer weitaus positiveren Semantik des Diasporischen entgegenstellt. Ein exilischer Diskurs soll im engen Bezug auf die Situation der chinesischen Diaspora in den Vereinigten Staaten im frühen 20. Jahrhundert herausgearbeitet werden. Der Diskurs des Exilischen kann als Versuch verstanden werden, dem zeitgenössischen dominanten Diskurs zur chinesischen Präsenz in den USA zu begegnen. In den literarischen Zeugnissen chinesischer Einwanderer der 1910er bis 40er Jahre, den Gedichten von Angel Island – wird die Kondition des Exilischen aufgerufen, um eine eingeklammerte, prekäre, unbestimmte Position zwischen den Fronten zu evozieren, eine Situation, die als nicht-normal, außergewöhnlich und instabil präsentiert wird. Dabei geht es nicht nur darum, einen Anspruch auf Integration zu erheben, sondern die Situation des Exilischen wird hier auch zunehmend totalisiert – die Außenseitersituation wird in ihren subversiven und bedrohlichen Implikationen affirmiert, das Exil zeitigt Widerstand. Die Semantik des Exils weist in sämtlichen Varianten – klagend oder aggressiv – auf den Versuch, die Situation der Ausgrenzung konzeptuell anders zu 'rahmen' als der zeitgenössische politiko-juridische Diskurs der USA es tut. Dennoch bleiben die Gedichte im spannungsreichen Bezug zu diesem hegemonialen Diskurs – sie vermögen ihn kritisch zu beleuchten, aber sie zeigen sich auch von ihm gefangen. 

Reconstructing the history of exile and return: A reading of Dom Moraes's The Long Strider

by Sayan Chattopadhyay

published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48.1 (2012); 79-91

Throughout his life the celebrated Indian English poet Dom Moraes had suffered the dilemma of being doubly exiled. His... more Throughout his life the celebrated Indian English poet Dom Moraes had suffered the dilemma of being doubly exiled. His Eurasian origin had exiled him both from his motherland India as well as from an England which he vainly tried to make his home. This article focuses on his last book, The Long Strider (2003), co-authored by Saraya Srivatsa, where Moraes revisits this idea of exile and homecoming through a double narrative relating the fascinating history of an Englishman named Tom Coryate who actually “walked” from England to India in 1613 to visit the court of Jahangir. This is interwoven with Dom Moraes’s own journey tracing the footsteps of the pioneering Englishman. Apart from exploring the manifold routes of and movements between home and exile, this travelogue/history/fiction also offers interesting insights into key postcolonial concerns such as the colonial gaze, the process of narrativizing the Orient, and the process of constructing history. The article looks at the relationship between Moraes’s text and the long tradition of “postcolonial” narratives of exile and homecoming scripted in India since the 19th century, when a profound sense of cultural displacement had been brought about by colonization. It also analyses the changed dynamics of the process of homecoming that The Long Strider presents in the context of the last few decades, when repeated ethnic clashes and mass killings seemed to put the very idea of India under erasure.

Enlisting and Updating: Ruggero Vasari and the Shifting Coordinates of Futurism in Eastern and Central Europe

by Maria Elena Versari

"International Yearbook of Futurism Studies"
ed. by Günter Berghaus (1) (November 2011): 277–298

Transience: Poems from Four Nations

by Nathanael O'Reilly

Transience: Poems from Four Nations: “No Chinese,” “Texas,” “Check King,” “Slaving,” and “Transitory.” Transnational Literature 1. 2 (May 2009). Web.

"Lusitanian" (poem).

by Nathanael O'Reilly

"Lusitanian." Transnational Literature 3. 1 (Nov. 2010). Web.

Memoir as Iranian exile cultural production: A case study of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis series

by Amy Malek

The Exile of the Spanish Psychologist Emilio Mira y López

by Annette Mülberger

text of a chapter published in the book edited by J.L. Barona (2010). El Exilio Científico Republicano (pp.157-172). Universidad de Valencia: PUV.

Mira was a well known Spanish psychologist and psychiatrist, director of the Institute for Professional Guidance of... more Mira was a well known Spanish psychologist and psychiatrist, director of the Institute for Professional Guidance of Barcelona between 1926 and 1939, responsible for the organization of two International Conferences of Psychotechniques (1929 and 1931). During the Civil War Mira was head of the Republican Psychiatric Service. As a scientist he elaborated, at that time, a psychological analysis of the social revolution. The paper is written in Spanish and deals with Mira's personal experience of the exile. Using archival documents like letters I show the kind of problems he had to face and the opportunities the displacement had for this career.

L'excentricite dans les romans de Milan Kundera

by Shuko Tanaka

“Nostalgia, self-exile and the national idea: The case of Andrea Mustoxidi and the early-19th-century Heptanesians of Italy”, in Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kızılyürek, Umut Özkırımlı (eds), Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey (New perspectives on South-East Europe), Palgrave Macmillan, UK 2009, pp. 98-111.

by Konstantina (Κωνσταντίνα) Zanou (Ζάνου)

"L'arte di dire l'esilio", Bollettino di Italianistica, n.s., anno VIII, n. 2, 2011, num. mon. La letteratura Italiana e l'esilio, 17-41.

by Elisa Brilli

The article develops an argument about the exile of Dante in order to identify some critical issues posed by this... more The article develops an argument about the exile of Dante in order to identify some critical issues posed by this "historical fact" as well as this "textual data". First, the author considers the problem of a proper historical evaluation of Dante’s exile in keeping with recent propositions coming from studies of medieval history and historical sociology of intellectual groups. Then, focusing on Dante's answers to the problem of the speakability (dicibilità) of his own political experience, the author highlights the refusal be Dante of the “erotic-political” discourse - which was instead typical of the Sicilian and Tuscan poetry as well as of ovidian Tristia and Epistulae ex-Pontus. By this way, the author points out the gradual shift in Dante’s authorship and self-representation from a Boethian model to the reinvention of the apostolic-prophetic model. The conclusions highlight the paradoxes of authorship launched by Dante and by him delivered to the Italian literary tradition.

Repenser l'histoire en exil. L'exil comme lieu de réinterprétation de l'histoire allemande

by Matthias Waechter

La Bibliothèque d’Eléphantine (Egypte)

by PD Dr. Ursula Schattner-Rieser

in: Bibliothèques Hebraïca – Judaïca, Tsafon 56 (2008-2009),  13-27.

Hamdan's 'Uprooted' and Said's Reflections

by Manal Bouchacra

The reaction paper will adapt some of Edward Said’s theories from his piece ‘Reflections on Exile’  to Weeda... more The reaction paper will adapt some of Edward Said’s theories from his piece ‘Reflections on Exile’  to Weeda Hamdan’s painting ‘Uprooted’, the title makes it very suitable to read it as a depiction of exile.  I will show how Hamdan points to the importance of history, the struggle with identity and her use of colours to depict the feeling of loss associated with exile. 

Mapping Babel: Language and Exile in WG Sebald's Austerlitz

by Richard Steadman-Jones