EAN: 9783319914145

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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 that unlike expatriation (a choice of a foreign land over one¿s own) exile is a political rather than an artistic concept and is forced rather than voluntary ¿ while exile can be emancipatory it is always an unwelcome loss. In addition to its historical dimension exile also entails a different perception of return to expatriation. This book frames expatriates as quintessentially American particularly intellectuals and artists seeking a space of creativity and social dissidence in the experience of living away from home. At the heart of both literary discourses however is a preoccupation with home belonging identity language mobility and homecoming.

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