UID:
almafu_9959202397602883
Format:
1 online resource (289 p.)
ISBN:
1-4411-9298-0
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1-4725-4315-7
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1-283-11417-8
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9786613114174
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1-4411-3016-0
Content:
Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind. It considers the entwined phenomena of expatriation and homelessness, and the artistic responses to these conditions, including reconstructions of identity and the creation of idealized new homelands. Conrad and Gombrowicz, writers who lived with the condition of exile, were in the vanguard of what today has become a thriving intellectual community of transnationals whose calling card is precisely their hybridity and fluency in multiple cultural t
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction : The Spaces and Trajectories of Exile -- Chapter 1. The Condition Known as Exile -- Chapter 2. Crossing the Thresholds of Modernist Discourse -- Chapter 3. Life Writing -- Chapter 4. Toward Heterotopia : The Case of Trans- Atlantyk -- Chapter 5. Imagined Nations, Fractured Narrations : The Politics of Language and Poetics of Territoriality in Nostromo -- Chapter 6. The Conditional Narrativity of Cosmos -- Conclusion : Identity and its Displacements: Some Closing Axioms -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Also issued in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-5300-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-4079-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472543158
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