Creativity in exile / / Michael Hanne.

• Superior document: Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 29
• VerfasserIn: Hanne, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Brill,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 pages) :; illustrations.

Until recently, discussion of ‘creativity in exile’ has focussed almost exclusively on a few European male writers, from Dante to Joseph Brodsky, who sought refuge abroad from political oppression. This volume, with accompanying 100-minute DVD, ranges much more widely, to examine the extraordinary creative endeavours in a range of media of men and women in almost every part of the world who, for a host of different reasons, have experienced displacement from their homelands. It brings together papers by academics, many of whom have experienced exile themselves, on topics as diverse as: the visual arts in Colombia, fiction by displaced indigenous peoples, convicts and slaves as exiles, writings about the partition of Bengal, the culture of Palestinian Americans, philosophers on exile, and the significance of cooking to refugee communities, which are interspersed with poems by contemporary writers in exile. The use of the DVD format has permitted the inclusion of: studio interviews with notable exiled writers from Nigeria, Cyprus and Bulgaria, extracts from two films relating to exile, a live reading of his work by an Iraqi poet, an audio and sculptural installation by a First Nations Canadian artist, and a performance by musicians in exile from Burundi.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Michael Hanne -- Creativity and Exile: An Introduction / Michael Hanne -- Poem: ‘Can You Tell Me?’ / Yilma Tafere Tasew -- Burundi Drummers: Performance / Michael Hanne -- Resisting the Anomie: Exile and the Romantic Self / Chris Abani -- Interview and Poems: ‘Ode to Joy’, ‘1971’, ‘People Like Us’ / Chris Abani -- Poem for Chris Abani: ‘Parts of Speech’ / Kapka Kassabova -- Film: Three Riders of the Apocalypse / Shahin Yazdani -- Exile and the Philosophical Challenge to Citizenship / Farhang Erfani and John Whitmire -- Exile, Empire and the Convict Diaspora: The Return of Magwitch / Kirsty Reid -- Exile at the Edges of Empire: Contemporary Writing in Portuguese / Isabel Moutinho -- Audio Installation with Sculptural Images ‘Thought Exiled from the Tongue’ / Dolleen Manning -- Catastrophe, Memory, and Testimony in Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman / Hsinya Huang -- American Literary Exiles: The Escape from Anguish / Peter Karsten -- Interview, Poems, and a Short Story: ‘Fingers’, ‘Kyrenia’, ‘Don’t Forget’, and ‘Ledra Street’ / Nora Nadjarian -- The Poetics of Exile in the Inter-war Novels of Irina Odoevtseva / Xenia Srebrianski Harwell -- Interview and Poems: ‘Refugees’, ‘Coming to Paradise’, ‘Immigrant Architectures’, ‘My Life in Two Parts’, ‘In the Shadow of the Bridge’ / Kapka Kassabova -- The Myth of the Great Return: Memory, Longing and Forgetting in Milan Kundera’s Ignorance / Fiona J. Doloughan -- Exile in Redemption: S.Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday / Arnold J. Band -- Exile and Revolt: Arab and Afro-American Poets in Dialogue / Saddik Gohar -- Annexing the Land of Exile: Language and History in the Work of Assia Djebar / Trudy Agar -- Creating a Poetics in Exile: The Development of an Ethnic Palestinian-American Culture / Nir Yehudai -- Poems: ‘Do not live a day in a homeland’s memory’ and ‘O fire be peaceful’ / Emad Jabbar -- Poem for Basim Furat, Emad Jabbar and Yilma Tafere Tasew: ‘Exiles’ / Nora Nadjarian -- Exile and Memory: Re-membering Home After the Partition of Bengal / Urbashi Barat -- Film Excerpts: A Taste of Place: Stories of Food and Longing / Shuchi Kothari and Sarina Pearson -- Food and the Exile / Hilary Funnell -- The Other Side of Exile: Malaysian Writers Who Stayed Behind / Zawiah Yahya -- The Cultivation of Exile: Qi Biaojia and his Allegory Mountain / Duncan Campbell -- A Sense of Place: Colombian Artists on Violence and Exile / Marta Jimena Cabrera -- Fading into Metaphor: Globalization and the Disappearance of Exile / Rudolphus Teeuwen.