Placeless people : writings, rights, and refugees / Lyndsey Stonebridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stonebridge, Lyndsey, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Arendt, Hannah.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Exiles' writings--20th century--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings.

Refugees in literature.

Expatriate authors.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Refugees--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198797005

0198797001

OCLC:

1028527446