Creativity in exile / / Michael Hanne.

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 c...

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Superior document:Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 29
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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.
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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.