Languages of Exile

Axel Englund is Lecturer in Aesthetics at Sdertrn University, Sweden. His research centres on twentieth-century poetry and the interplay of music and literature. In 2011, he was an Anna Lindh Fellow at Stanford University and has held visiting scholarships at Columbia University and Free University Berlin. Anders Olsson is Professor of Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research focuses on the European poetic tradition from Romanticism to the present. He is also a literary critic, essayist and poet and in 2008 he was elected as a member of the Swedish Academy.

Contents: Axel Englund/Anders Olsson: Introduction: Twentieth-Century Ruptures of Location and Locution Ulf Olsson: Evil Freedom: Linguistic Confusion and Convention in Joseph Conrads The Secret Agent Maria Kager: To Fondle in Humbertish: Vladimir Nabokovs Linguistic Exile Ljubica Mioevi: Whats Difference?: On Language and Identity in the Writings of Aleksandar Hemon Tobias Dahlkvist: Exile as a School of Scepticism: Emil Cioran Arthur Rose: Insomnia and Exile: Ciorans Separate Man Gabriela Seccardini: Exile in the French Language: Assia Djebar and Malika Mokeddem Katharina Birngruber: Language Shift and the Experience of Exile: Agota Kristof s Prose in the Context of Migration Adam Wickberg Mnsson: Exile Writing and the Medium of the Book: Julio Cortzars Rayuela Jesper Olsson: Speech Rumblings: Exile, Transnationalism and the Multilingual Space of Sound Poetry W.C. Bamberger: Language and Alternate History in Mauricio Kagels Mare Nostrum Anders Olsson: Aching Through: Nelly Sachss Poetics of Exile Markus Huss: The Linguistic Outlaw: Peter Weisss Return to German as Literary Language Axel Englund: Bleston Babel: Migration, Multilingualism and Intertextuality in W.G. Sebalds Mancunian Cantical Katarina Bth: The Meaning of a Piece of Silk: On Irony and Animals in W.G. Sebalds Die Ringe des Saturn.