Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing

• Main Author: Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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...