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Written in Exile

Author : Liu Tsung-yuan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322073

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Written in Exile by Liu Tsung-yuan Pdf

After a failed push for political reform, the T’ang era’s greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, was exiled to the southern reaches of China. Thousands of miles from home and freed from the strictures of court bureaucracy, he turned his gaze inward and chronicled his estrangement in poems. Liu’s fame as a prose writer, however, overshadowed his accomplishment as a poet. Three hundred years after Liu died, the poet Su Tung-p’o ranked him as one of the greatest poets of the T’ang, along with Tu Fu, Li Pai, and Wei Ying-wu. And yet Liu is unknown in the West, with fewer than a dozen poems published in English translation. The renowned translator Red Pine discovered Liu’s poetry during his travels throughout China and was compelled to translate 140 of the 146 poems attributed to Liu. As Red Pine writes, “I was captivated by the man and by how he came to write what he did.” Appended with thoroughly researched notes, an in-depth introduction, and the Chinese originals, Written in Exile presents the long-overdue introduction of a legendary T’ang poet.

Written in Exile

Author : Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944270

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Written in Exile by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo Pdf

On September 11, 1973, Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup ousting the Allende government. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that the rise of the Pinochet dictatorship and the subsequent imprisonment of any Allende sympathizers shaped Chilean narrative into two structural forms: liberationist narrative--cathartic, journalistic testimonies that provide models for revolutionary behavior against authoritarianism and demystifying narrative, which uses the events of 1973, as well as the colonial aspirations of European countries, as a "Paradise Lost" backdrop in which the characters of this type of fiction are able to create their non-political realities that become models of democratization.

The Heart in Exile

Author : Rodney Garland,Adam De Hegedus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941147127

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The Heart in Exile by Rodney Garland,Adam De Hegedus Pdf

Julian Leclerc, a handsome and talented young barrister, has been found dead of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. The verdict is accidental death, but his fiancee, Ann Hewitt, suspects there's something more to the story. As the grieving woman recounts the details of Julian's tragic end to psychiatrist Dr. Tony Page, he listens with acute interest - but not for the reason she thinks. Years earlier, he and Julian had been lovers, and now, disturbed by the circumstances of his friend's demise, Tony sets out to uncover the truth. His quest will take him from the parties and pubs of the gay underworld of 1950s London to Scotland Yard and the House of Commons as he uses his shrewd and penetrating insight to find who or what was responsible for Julian's death. But he may discover more than he bargained for - about Julian, and himself.

Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity

Author : Rebekah Merkle
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781944503529

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Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity by Rebekah Merkle Pdf

The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much is indisputable. So, First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage. Second-Wave feminists marched for Prohibition, jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what. But modern women--who use psychotherapeutic antidepressants at a rate never before seen in history--need liberating now more than ever. The truth is, feminists don't know what liberation is. They have led us into a very boring dead end. Eve in Exile sets aside all stereotypes of mid-century housewives, of China-doll femininity, of Victorians fainting, of women not allowed to think for themselves or talk to the men about anything interesting or important. It dismisses the pencil-skirted and stiletto-heeled executives of TV, the outspoken feminists freed from all that hinders them, the brave career women in charge of their own destinies. Once those fictionalized stereotypes are out of the way--whether they're things that make you gag or things you think look pretty fun--Christians can focus on real women. What did God make real women for?

East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939-1989

Author : Maria Zadencka,Andrejs Plakans,Andreas Lawaty
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004299696

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East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939-1989 by Maria Zadencka,Andrejs Plakans,Andreas Lawaty Pdf

The studies in East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939-1989 offer concise analysis of the organization and the intellectual work of historians exiled from the Baltic States, including Baltic Germans, Belorusia, Ukraine, and Poland in the West.

Varieties of Exile

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058132104

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Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant Pdf

The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are the celebrated Linnet Muir stories, wonderfully wise and funny investigations into the difficulties of growing up and breaking free.

Exile on a Grid Road

Author : Shelley Banks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1771870575

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Exile on a Grid Road by Shelley Banks Pdf

Exile on a Grid Road is a celebration and exploration of the human experience, from youth to adulthood and illness to joy. Sadness, healing, humour, forgiveness, and joyfulness mingle as Shelley Banks creates detailed narratives of office life, failing health, and complex relationships and confronts the rootlessness and disconnection common to a contemporary experience marked by globalization and increasing mobility. In many of her poems, Banks presents the conundrum of belonging, identity, and culture. She displays an intimate knowledge of the many environments in which she has lived but also possesses an underlying disconnect due to the temporary nature of her stay in each place. Though poems such as "Moon Offering" and "Grasshopper Summer" are rich with natural imagery of the Canadian prairies, Banks' writes, "I have no farm./I am three generations past my mother's flight/from saddles, curry combs and dill./I am afraid of horses./I'm city-deep." She expresses a similar separation from her youth in the Caribbean, recalling the vivid details of storms, beaches, and "curry, chutney, tangerines" yet reasserting her alienation and feelings of loss. Encounters with mortality are brought into sharp relief in later sections when Banks introduces an elderly grandmother, aging family pets, and the sudden death of a parent on his way to McDonald's for a morning coffee. In "Kiss of Knives", a sequence of nine poems which follows a woman battling breast cancer, Banks reveals her insight into the complexity of emotion present while dealing with illness. This complexity is especially evident in the poem "2: Wings Spread Under Glass" when a woman "so tired she can't walk/across a grocery store" agonizes that she has become a neglectful parent even as she fights to stay alive. Banks' quiet wit keeps her serious subject matter from overwhelming by presenting mundane details of working life with fresh observational humour, including describing tea that "is cold and tastes like chewing gum" and expressing envy towards an irresponsible coworker who "wears Black Cashmere,/come-fuck-me shoes." She uses rich imagery to evoke nostalgia and to remind readers of the details we often miss during the process of daily life. By combining sharp observation, humour, and accessible verse, Exile on a Grid Road reveals the wonders to be found among the seemingly mundane details of the day to day.

Exile, the Writer's Experience

Author : John M. Spalek,Robert F. Bell
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008469754

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Exile, the Writer's Experience by John M. Spalek,Robert F. Bell Pdf

This work is a collection of twenty-four fundamental essays on the many-sided topic of German exile literature during and after Hitler's Third Reich. Exile literature, which emerged in the 1980s as a special field of critical investigation within German Studies, embraced the diverse works of writers who were scattered from Hollywood to Moscow but were related by the common bond of exile from Germany. Leading American and European specialists in the field are contributors to the volume, which discusses the work of Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch and Karl Wolfskehl among others.

Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond

Author : Jan Felix Gaertner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047418948

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Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond by Jan Felix Gaertner Pdf

The volume explores how Greek and Latin authors perceive and present their own (real or metaphorical) exile and employ exile as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.

Outlandish

Author : Nico Israel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804730733

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Outlandish by Nico Israel Pdf

Outlandish addresses geographical displacement as a lived experience in the twentieth century, as a predicament of writing, and as a problem for theory. It focuses on the work of three transnational writers from diverse backgrounds working in different genres: Joseph Conrad, the Ukrainian-born Polish novelist and storywriter living in Britain at the turn of the century; Theodor W. Adorno, the German-Jewish philosopher and sociologist transplanted to Los Angeles during the Second World War; and Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British novelist and journalist, recently released from the peculiar conditions of his notorious houseless arrest. The author argues that Conrad, Adorno, and Rushdie emblematize significant shifts over the course of the century, from a modernist expression of almost universal deracination, to a post-Auschwitz disarticulation of home and subjectivity, to an emergent conceptualization of displacement in terms of migrancy, hybridity, and flow. He theorizes a mode of reading between exile and diaspora--two fundamentally different descriptions of displacement--and allows the "outlandish" writing of these three figures to complicate this seemingly continuous trajectory. Drawing on texts from literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and geography, the author explores what he calls the "rhetoric of displacement"--the struggle to assert identity out of place. He reads this writing predicament against the backdrop of the century's salient economic and technological changes, political upheavals, and mass migrations. In doing so, he draws attention to those aspects of exile and diaspora that have remained insufficiently considered: their relation to nationalism and colonialism, to authority and institutionality, and, above all, to broader questions of subjectivity, "race," location, and language, as these concepts themselves subtly change over the course of the century.

Looking for Home

Author : Deborah Keenan,Roseann Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002566474

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Looking for Home by Deborah Keenan,Roseann Lloyd Pdf

Contains poems about migration by more than seventy women.

Between Exile and Return

Author : Anne Golomb Hoffman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791405419

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Between Exile and Return by Anne Golomb Hoffman Pdf

This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon’s art as the relationship of the literary text to traditions of sacred writings, the place of the book in culture, and the relationship of writing to the body.

Israel in Exile

Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252092022

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Israel in Exile by Ranen Omer-Sherman Pdf

Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical skepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, and Amos Oz, as well as diasporic writers such as Edmund Jabès and Simone Zelitch. In contrast to other ethnic and national representations, Jewish writers since antiquity have not constructed a neat antithesis between the desert and the city or nation; rather, the desert becomes a symbol against which the values of the city or nation can be tested, measured, and sometimes found wanting. This book examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert still reverberate in secular Jewish literature and produce fascinating literary rewards. Omer-Sherman ultimately argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires a renewed urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.

Readings from the Book of Exile

Author : Pádraig Ó Tuama
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254404

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Readings from the Book of Exile by Pádraig Ó Tuama Pdf

One of the most intriguing and engaging voices in contemporary Christianity is that of the Irish poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama and this is his first, long-awaited poetry collection. Hailing from the Ikon community in Belfast and working closely with its founder, the bestselling writer Pete Rollins, Pádraig’s poetry interweaves parable, poetry, art, activism and philosophy into an original and striking expression of faith. Pádraig’s poems are accessible, memorable profound and challenging. They emerge powerfully from a context of struggle and conflict and yet are filled with hope.

Home and Exile

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190285555

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Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe Pdf

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers.