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One-way tickets : writers and the culture of exile
- Title
- One-way tickets : writers and the culture of exile / Alicia Borinsky.
- Author
- Borinsky, Alicia.
- Publication
- San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 12-1417 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 223 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Borinsky discusses the works of writers in exile, including Vladimir Nabokov, writing in English in the United States, Julio Cortázar in Paris, and Witold Gombrowicz in Buenos Aires, as well as Jorge Luis Borges, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Oscar Hijuelos, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, and Clarice Lispector"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A samovar's tale -- Stranded -- How foreign can one remain? -- The self and its impossible landscapes -- Who will speak the truth? -- Instructions for taking a leap -- Everybody's other world -- Who is the woman of the mother's tongue? -- Getting a life -- Foreignness and ridicule -- We are everywhere.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-1417
- ISBN
- 9781595340702 (hc.)
- 159534070X (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2010044221
- OCLC
- YBP 2010044221
- Author
- Borinsky, Alicia.
- Title
- One-way tickets : writers and the culture of exile / Alicia Borinsky.
- Imprint
- San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-1417