Placeless People

Writings, Rights, and Refugees

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought. For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights. Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-25
Mått:163 x 242 x 22 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198797005
Utmärkelser:Winner of the MSA Book Prize

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Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at University of Birmingham. Her books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011/2014), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay, 2007). She is currently writing a short book on Literature and Human Rights for OUP's Literary Agendas series, and collaborating on a large interdisciplinary project, Refugee Hosts.

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Placeless People is an extraordinary book that deserves a wide readership. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the feld of literary refugee studies and a textbook example of how intellectual history can help us read literature and vice versa.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees PART ONE: READING STATELESSNESS 1: Reading Statelessness: Arendt's Kafka 2: Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings PART TWO: PLACELESS PEOPLE 3: Orwell's Jews 4: Weil's Uprooted 5: Beckett's Expelled PART THREE: SANDS OF SORROW 6: Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine 7: Statelessness and the Poetry of the Borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

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