Placeless people : writing, rights, and refugees
Stonebridge, Lyndsey, 1965-2018
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"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, and 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Placeless people : writing, rights, and refugees / by Lyndsey Stonebridge.
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.©2018
Collation:
xiv, 244 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: Placeless people: writings, rights, and refugees -- Part One. Reading statelessness. Reading statelessness: Arendt's Kafka ; Hannah Arendt's message of ill tidings -- Part Two. Placeless people. Orwell's Jews ; Simone Weil's uprooted ; Beckett's expelled -- Part Three. Sands of sorrow. Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine ; Statelessness and the poetry of the borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh.
ISBN:
9780198797005
Dewey class:
809.892
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
378530
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 809.892 PLA | Available |