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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stonebridge, Lyndsey, author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Exiles' writings--20th century--History and criticism.
Exiles' writings.
Refugees in literature.
Expatriate authors.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.
Arendt, Hannah.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Summary:
Exploring the work of Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, and Simone Weil, among others, 'Placeless People' argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these writers to tackle today's refugee 'crisis'.
Contents:
Cover
PLACELESS PEOPLE: Writing, Rights, and Refugees
Copyright
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees
Placeless People
Writing
Rights
Refugees
PART ONE: Reading Statelessness
One: Reading Statelessness Arendt's Kafka
The banality of exile
Arendt's Kafka
Goodwill
Two: Hannah Arendt's Message of Ill Tidings
The Refugee Writes on World Literature
Literature and the right to have rights
The Refugee's Message
PART TWO: Placeless People
Three: Orwell's Jews
The death boats
Uprooted and/or superfluous?
Orwell's Jews
On counting refugees
Exodus 1947
Four: Simone Weil's Uprooted
About her departure
Rights and Roots
Impossible Liberty
'Imagine me-a foreigner'
Five: Beckett's Expelled
Humanity in Ruins
PART THREE: Sands of Sorrow
Six: Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine
The 'Calamity Jane of the International Set'
Sands of Sorrow: Humanitarian Palestine
Mass-camp men
Seven: Statelessness and the Poetry of the Borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Stateless or Borderline?
Poetry of the borderline
Endnotes
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Bibliography
General Index
Names Index.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-19-251737-6
0-19-183863-2
0-19-251736-8
OCLC:
1056711386

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