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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Voluntary/Involuntary Departures: The Complications of Exile and Belonging in Malcolm Cowley and Fawaz Turki
• 3. Centrifugal/Centripetal Movements: Placelessness and the Subversive Tactics of Mobility in Ernest Hemingway and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
• 4. Voyage In/Voyage Out: The Place of Origin and Identity (Re-) Construction in Gertrude Stein and Edward Said
• 5. Possible/Impossible Returns: The Questions of Roots and Routes in Thomas Wolfe and Mourid Barghouti
• 6. Conclusion.