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Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing

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Authors:
  1. Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha

    1. An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine, State of

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  • Takes an original comparative approach
  • Builds on, and diverges from, Said's work by drawing a clear distinction between expatriation and exile
  • Examines the work of Turki, Barghouti and Jabra alongside that of Hemingway, Stein and Wolfe

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
    Pages 1-40

  3. Voluntary/Involuntary Departures: The Complications of Exile and Belonging in Malcolm Cowley and Fawaz Turki

    • Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
    Pages 41-70

  4. Centrifugal/Centripetal Movements: Placelessness and the Subversive Tactics of Mobility in Ernest Hemingway and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

    • Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
    Pages 71-116

  5. Voyage In/Voyage Out: The Place of Origin and Identity (Re-)Construction in Gertrude Stein and Edward Said

    • Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
    Pages 117-163

  6. Possible/Impossible Returns: The Questions of Roots and Routes in Thomas Wolfe and Mourid Barghouti

    • Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
    Pages 165-210

  7. Conclusion

    • Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
    Pages 211-214

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 215-250
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About this book

This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that, unlike expatriation (a choice of a foreign land over one’s own), exile is a political rather than an artistic concept and is forced rather than voluntary — while exile can be emancipatory, it is always an unwelcome loss. In addition to its historical dimension, exile also entails a different perception of return to expatriation. This book frames expatriates as quintessentially American, particularly intellectuals and artists seeking a space of creativity and social dissidence in the experience of living away from home. At the heart of both literary discourses, however, is a preoccupation with home, belonging, identity, language, mobility and homecoming.

Authors and Affiliations

  • An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine, State of

    Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha

About the author

Ahmad Qabaha is Assistant Professor in Postcolonial, Comparative and American Studies at An-Najah National University in Palestine and its current Director in Minor in American Studies Program. He has published various works in his fields of study, and he is currently working with Dr Rachel Fox on his second monograph Post-millennial Palestine: Memory, Narration, Resistance.

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