Research Catalog

Title

Exile, language and identity / Magda Stroińska, Vittorina Cecchetto (eds.).

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Stroinska, Magda.
• Cecchetto, Vittorina.
• European Research Centre (Kingston University (London, England))
• Exiles 2001 (Herstmonceux, England)

Description

250 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

{U2018}Exile{u2019} means a prolonged, usually enforced absence from one{u2019}s home or country. There is no paradigm for an exilic existence and no prescription of how to heal the loss of one{u2019}s home and one{u2019}s identity. Exiles move in space, migrating from one place to another, but they are trapped in time. They long for what they have lost and fear what is yet to come. Like the Roman god Janus, they constantly look both ways, often lacking language that would help them to reconnect with the world. This volume examines the process of the exile{u2019}s self-translation by rediscovering a way of expression for the ensnared experience. It requires a new language so that the self may take a new shape. By discussing the unavoidable losses wrought upon immigrants, exiles and refugees by the mere fact of being displaced, the authors hope to foster a better understanding of these problems and help to rebuild shattered identities and ruined lives. - From publisher's website.

Subject

• Sociolinguistics
• Exiles > Psychology
• Exiles > Language
• Identity (Psychology)
• Language and emotions
• Exil
• Sprache
• Identität
• Exiles' writings > History and criticism > Congresses
• Exile (Punishment) in literature > Congresses
• Immigrants > Language > Congresses
• Language and culture > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Collection of papers inspired by a session of: Exiles 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Essays in English, with text examples from various languages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cultural translation and the translingual self in the memoirs of Edward Said and André Aciman / Mary Besemeres -- Exile from the inner self of from society? A dilemma in the works of Max Frisch / Claire Burke -- Persephone as paradigm: Fictional exiles in postcolonial francophone literature / Ruth Burke -- Albert Memmi's Agar: the paradox of the couple / Chantal Abouchar -- German films in a German exile / Andrea Rinke -- The role of language in th re-construction of identity in exile / Magda Stroinska -- Joseph Brodsky: Exile, language and metamorphosis / Natalia E. Rulyova -- Achy Obeja's 'Sugarcane' and Cuban-American bilingual literature: language choices and cultural indentities / Annabel Cox -- The problem of identity and languages and refugees from the (former) Yugoslavia / Branka Popovic -- From immigrant to exile: does language contribute to this process? / Vittorina Cecchetto -- Collage and chronotope in Régine Robin's Le Québécoite / Anthony Purdy -- Deutschland, Deutschland über alles: sprechen, schreiben, schweigen / Iris Bruce -- Exile, identity and memory: the boundaries of perception / Catherine Reuben -- At the borders of language, language without borders: Non-verbal forms of communication of women survivors of torture / Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 3631394845 (Frankfurt : pbk.)
• 0820459720 (New York : pbk.)

OCLC

• 52948515
• SCSB-11328127

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library