Exiles and Migrants: Crossing Thresholds in European Culture and Society

by T Coulson

Overview

The situation of exiles and migrants stands at the crux of the existential, as well as economic-political internationalism of the 20th century. This collection of essays begins by tracing the fundamental presuppositions of socio-cultural encounters arising out of migration in the 17th to 19th centuries. Next, the 20th-century experience of cultural and personal identity faced by those who chose, or were compelled, to leave behind family, homeland, mode of life, and perhaps even language, is explored. Major literary and conematic representations of cross-cultural contact and exchange in modern Europe and its (ex-)colonies are considered, including the relationship between European societies and their new ethnic minorities. Major inter-cultural encounters characteristic of 19th and 20th century Europe are tackled, including the post-colonial relationship between European societies and their new ethnic minorities, in which the descendants of Empire and the new subjects of European economic expansion struggle to find their voice. Finally, a close look is given to the specific role of the writer and text in a society of intercultural pluralism, where language itself becomes and eploration of possible voices and identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781898723691
Publisher:	Sussex Academic Press
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	viii
	Acknowledgments	x
	Introduction	1
Part I	Demarcation and Assimilation: Socio-Cultural Encounters in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
1	A Frank in the Ottoman Empire: the Case of the Chevalier d'Arvieux	23
2	Voloumous deamboulare: the Wandering Irish in French Literature, 1600-1789	32
3	Between Exile and Assimilation: Languages and Identity in German-Jewish Texts around 1848	43
Part II	Europe's Homeless: A Century of Exile
4	Land of the Fair, Land of the Free? The Myth of America in Irish Folklore	57
5	From George Moore to Brian Moore: Irish Writers making a Fetish of Exile	72
6	Enlightened Humanism Defeated: German Writers, Writings and Ideas in Exile, 1933-41	83
7	Klaus Mann's Novel The Volcano - a Document of German Emigration after 1933	91
8	'There is no history here': Marguerite Yourcenar's American Exile	101
9	Varieties of Exile: Stefan Schutz's Novel Katt	111
Part III	Europe and its Other: The Colonial Legacy and Ethnicity
10	Things Fall Apart: the Portrayal of African Identity in Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson and Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease	125
11	The Dialogue of Exile: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure ambigue	136
12	Three Generations of Francophone North African Writers in Exile: Driss Chraibi, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Mehdi Charef	144
13	Images of Difference: The Portrayal of Ethnic Minorities in German Cinema since Fassbinder	154
Part IV	Issues of Language and Identity: The Text as Location and Mediation
14	Stotious boats: Exile in Irish Translations of Rimbaud's Bateau ivre	175
15	Julien Green: Expatrie et Sudiste	185
17	On Locating the Narrative Voice in Intercultural Literature: Franco Biondi's Die Unversohnlichen	193
17	J.-M. G. Le Clezio, Writer of Exile. A Treatment of Childhood and Exile in Desert and Etoile Errante	201
18	Language and Culture Crossing: the Ethnographic Bridge	212
	The Contributors	223
	Index	226

Editorial Reviews

A collection of 18 essays from a 1994 symposium in Dublin, Ireland traces out the paths taken by travellers over three centuries of European cultural history. They investigate what it means to stand between ethnic identities and traditions, analyze the inner dialogue of those who find themselves strangers in their own land, examine dreams and myths of the past and future, address relationships of cultural dominance and resistance, retrace routes of flight and discovery, and measure degrees of discrimination and acceptance. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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