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Languages of Exile: Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature
Edited by Axel Englund, Edited by Anders Olsson
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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of linguistic difference. Literary writing can be read as the site where that confrontation is played out aesthetically – at the intersection between native and acquired language, between indigenous and alien, between self and other – in a complex multilingual dynamic specific to exile and migration. The essays collected here explore this dynamic from a comparative perspective, addressing the paragons of modernism as well as less frequently studied authors, from Joseph Conrad and Peter Weiss to Agota Kristof and Malika Mokeddem. The essays are international in their approach; they deal with the junctions and gaps between English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and other languages. The literary works and practices addressed include modernist poetry and prose, philosophical criticism and autobiography, DADA performance, sound art and experimental music theatre. This volume reveals both the wide range of creative strategies developed in response to the interstitial situation of exile and the crucial role of exile for a renewed understanding of twentieth-century literature.
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Publisher | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published date | 25 Oct 2013
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 330
Dimensions | 225 x 150 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 480g
ISBN | 978-3-0343-0943-1
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BISAC | literary criticism / semiotics & theory
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