Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Comparative literature.; Middle Eastern literature.; Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; America-Literatures.; Comparative Literature.; Middle Eastern Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.

This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests th...