Creativity in ExileMichael Hanne Until recently, discussion of 'creativity in exile' has focussed almost exclusively on a few European male writers, from Dante to Joseph Brodsky, who sought refuge abroad from political oppression. This volume, with accompanying 100-minute DVD, ranges much more widely, to examine the extraordinary creative endeavours in a range of media of men and women in almost every part of the world who, for a host of different reasons, have experienced displacement from their homelands. It brings together papers by academics, many of whom have experienced exile themselves, on topics as diverse as: the visual arts in Colombia, fiction by displaced indigenous peoples, convicts and slaves as exiles, writings about the partition of Bengal, the culture of Palestinian Americans, philosophers on exile, and the significance of cooking to refugee communities, which are interspersed with poems by contemporary writers in exile. The use of the DVD format has permitted the inclusion of: studio interviews with notable exiled writers from Nigeria, Cyprus and Bulgaria, extracts from two films relating to exile, a live reading of his work by an Iraqi poet, an audio and sculptural installation by a First Nations Canadian artist, and a performance by musicians in exile from Burundi. |
Contents
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Ode to Joy 1971 People Like | 31 |
Three Riders of the Apocalypse DVD | 37 |
The Return of | 57 |
Contemporary Writing in | 71 |
Catastrophe Memory and Testimony in Winona | 89 |
Memory Longing and | 141 |
Arab and AfroAmerican Poets in | 159 |
Language and History in | 183 |
Do not live a day in a homelands memory | 205 |
A Taste of Place Stories of Food and | 227 |
Malaysian Writers Who Stayed | 245 |
Colombian Artists on Violence and | 270 |
Globalization and the | 283 |
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