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This collection of transnational, globalized European literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. The collection features essays on such major writers as Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, and many others.
List of contents
Preface: On the Experience of Exile
Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein
1. Social Exile in Nineteenth Century England
Charlotte Fiehn
2. Zola's English Exile: the Private Pages of a Public Author
Katherine Ashley
3. "All Europe contributed": Joseph Conrad's Experience and Representation of Exile
Kelly C. MacPhail
4. Thomas Mann - An American? From Fascination to Disillusionment - The Black Swan as a Literary Account of Mann's Exile Experiences
Katarzyna Bä¿ewska
5. James Joyce, Dubliners, and Exile
Jeff Birkenstein
6. Franz Kafka's Exile of the Mind
Robert C. Hauhart
7. Professor Pnin in Exile: Nabokov and the Liminal Experience of the Post-War Émigré Academic
Rowena Clarke
8. Specks in the City: Shklovsky and Nabokov in Berlin
Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
9. Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Tradition of Political Thought and the Modern Age
Shmuel Lederman
10. Arthur Koestler's Fictional Self-Reflections of Exile
Andrea Gay Tyndall
11. In Search of the Doppelganger: Homecoming from Exile
Irina Golovacheva
12. Milan Kundera, the Novel, and the Problem of History
Liani Lochner
13. Norman Manea's Exile between Predicament and Redemption
Brîndüa Nicolaescu
14. Lessons from Exile-Eva Hoffman as Theoretician and Practitioner of Otherness
Johannes Evelein
15. "Receive me kindly, stranger that I am": W.G. Sebald's Existential Exile
Marion Rohrleitner
16. Transnational Modes of Exile in Caryl Phillips's Narratives: Or, What it Feels Like to be Both Of and Not Of
Svetlana Stefanova
About the author
Robert C. Hauhart is professor in the Department of Society and Social Justice at Saint Martin's University, Lacey.
Jeff Birkenstein is professor of English at Saint Martin's University, Lacey.
Summary
This collection of transnational, globalized European literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. The collection features essays on such major writers as Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, and many others.
