The condition we call exile

Brodsky, Joseph

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“…These conditions, while reflecting the opposition between the home and host countries, necessitated that post-colonial writers enter Western cultural centers precisely to make their cultural productions possible. Brodsky (1991) remarked that a search for "home" is often a search for a negotiated physical and mental space that brings a writer closer to the seat of ideals that inspired him or her all along. Exiled writers have gone to England or France in search of a better life and publication opportunities.…”

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From the Traumas of the Caribbean to a Revival of Resistant Literature: A West Indian Discourse

Hassan

2020

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This paper presents the history of the Caribbean peoples, their traumas, migrations, and their endeavors to recreate a collective cultural identity and go beyond their de-homing status. It focuses on the emergence of a resistant Caribbean literature that has helped in raising the voice of the Caribbean peoples. It conveys their yearnings, anxieties, and confusions, suggesting both geographic displacement and psychological dislocation. Within a post-colonial world that has remained dependent and underdeveloped, migration to Europe became an inevitable process. West Indian writers joined these successive waves of arriving migrants initiating a literature of exile. Later, several exiled post-colonial writers rejected the status of exile in favor of that of a migrant. This shift to the immigrant genre resulted in the writer's acceptance of his or her duality and ambivalence. In this study, the focus of research is to be narrowed down to Anglo-Caribbean writers and those of British West Indies. Hence, this approach to history adopts a descriptive documentary method, based on decisive incidents in the lives of these diasporic people. It relies, as well, on the opinions of theoreticians, writers, and scholars. The findings of this study indicated that Caribbean resistance, in the face of racism and marginalization, is an ongoing process in our contemporary world. They also showed an apparent revival of Caribbean writing, which scholars expect to play a role in enriching and adding to the British and American literatures.

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From the Traumas of the Caribbean to a Revival of Resistant Literature: A West Indian Discourse

Hassan

2020

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“…When Salman Rushdie describes himself as looking at a photograph of an old family house in his office, he concludes in the romanticising style typical for literary exile: ‘It's my present that is foreign, and that the past is home, albeit a lost home in a lost city in the mists of lost time (…) an imaginary homeland’ (: 9). In a similar vein, Joseph Brodsky aestheticised exile as ‘the premonition’ of his fate ‘in book form’ (: 6). These aestheticised metaphors have made exile a difficult concept to work with.…”

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Key figure of mobility: the exile

Hackl

2017

Social Anthropology

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Exile is an ancient concept of political displacement expressing the enduring consequences for those affected by it. At least since antiquity exile has been a particular existence but also a form of figuration for those writing about it. This slippage contributed to a widening gap between experiences of exile as a condition of displacement and the qualities the figure symbolises, thus complicating the question of who may be considered exiled under what circumstances. Using this slippage between condition and figure productively, this article first traces the figure through Edward Said and outlines the exile's relation to other key figures of mobility and diaspora. A second analytical move compares this figure to anthropological research and to the particular case of Palestinians living in exile 'at home'. Once reinstated as a condition of displacement for the anthropology of mobility, exile illuminates the subjective and temporal dimensions of political displacement and its enduring aftermath. It helps us to grasp the myriad processes by which people are excluded, allowed and forced to move, while also illustrating the forced movement of boundaries and political projects across and around people.

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“…And here, all psychological problems arise. Brodsky says, "If one assigned the life of an exiled writer a genre, it would have to be tragicomedy" (Brodsky, 1988). Because of his previous incarnation, he is capable of appreciating the social and material advantages of democracy far more intensely than its natives are.…”

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Exiled Writer in Migrant Literature

Soghomonyan

2021

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The purpose of this paper is to reveal the phenomena of the exiled writer in migrant literature. The perceptions of homesickness, identity, belonging, multiculturalism, otherness, and exile help us to highlight a number of psychological realities that the exiled writer faces becoming a migrant. With the help of mythological, sociological and psychological categories, we tried to open hidden layers of migration. Migrant literature is individual, subjective, diverse, but the causes that make writer become migrant are sometimes similar.

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The condition we call exile

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From the Traumas of the Caribbean to a Revival of Resistant Literature: A West Indian Discourse

From the Traumas of the Caribbean to a Revival of Resistant Literature: A West Indian Discourse

Key figure of mobility: the exile

Exiled Writer in Migrant Literature

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