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Placeless people : writing, rights, and refugees

Stonebridge, Lyndsey, 1965- author

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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Criticism and interpretation. / 1900-1999 / Exiles' writings 20th century History and criticism. / Refugees in literature. / Expatriate authors. / Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. / Refugees Social conditions. / Exiles' writings. / Literature, Modern.
• ISBN: 9780198797005, 0198797001

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN495.S755 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE