...Stathis Gourgouris Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 THE LYRIC IN EXILE (MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLLYWOODER LIEDERB UCH) Stathis Gourgouris to the memory of Edward Said This essay belongs to a series of writings on what I call "transgres...

...Djordje Popović Abstract The act of writing ensures that exile is never permanent in the mind of the writer even if it is an abiding feature of his or her reality. Dubravka Ugrešić explores this paradox in much of her work, suggesting that migrant writers experience “double exile”—first on account...

... for the rise of the Uruguayan dictatorship. Peri Rossi’s engagement with the visceral mystical in this poem is decidedly situated within the context of exile and transatlantic crossing. The poem highlights the disorientation of trauma and uprootedness and expresses a sense of being outside oneself, of watching...

...—is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration. Edward W. Said, “Reflections on Exile” You arrive at Drawing in the Diaspora , an exhibit featuring the work of the Chicago-born Palestinian artist Leila Abdelrazaq held at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn...

... they founded their new community in the open spaces of the New World." This problem of exile, however, will severely undercut the global relevance of this particular allegory. The structure of exile raises critically important problems for Arendt's conception...

... was objectively in exile, without stable housing, living the daily anxi- ety of being undocumented and of being targeted by racism in the streets. I was always taken for Algerian in the streets, and that had diffi cult consequences on a daily basis. Academia became the most familiar and comfortable place...

...Rachel Haejin Lim References Hirschkind Charles . “ Media, Mediation, Religion .” Social Anthropology 19 , no. 1 ( 2011 ): 90 – 97 . Malkki Liisa . “ Refugees and Exile: From ‘Refugee Studies’ to the National Order of Things .” Annual Review of Anthropology 24 ( 1995...

... of the very logic of colonial governmentality. Palestinians’ temporality was yanked away first with the brutal slap of Zionist colonization, followed by ongoing dispossession, exile, military rule, occupation, a shrinking territory, and “peace” processes. Not only is Israeli colonialism a continuous if uneven...

... of being comfortably at home” with the consciousness of exile and homelessness that is for him the mark of a critic, Said informs his readers that the perspective of exile “in- troduces circumstance and distinction where there had only been conformity and belonging.” Thus, he writes...

... of the Painter: Law and the Archive 241 distinction between fact and ideal was an anguishing struggle for offi cials. For example, in response to the problem of banditry, colo- nial offi cials drew up lists of potential bandits, tried these individu- als in summary fashion, and exiled them. The procedure...

...: for example, “February: Joyful Tears” (for the February Revolution), “April: The Prodigal” (Lenin’s return to Russia from years of exile in Switzerland), “July: Hot Days” (for the abortive uprising known as the “July Days,” whose failure led to the renewed suppression of the Bolsheviks by the state...

...: Stanford University Press, 2004], 19. Here- after cited as EU). 16. Nancy E. Berg, Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), 19. 17. Sa’ad Ibn-Kammûna, Examination of the Three Faiths, trans. Moshe Perlmann...

... in the importance of the work of Wyndham Lewis. Edwards neatly divides Lewis' aesthetic experiments into three peri- ods: the early innovations which find their abstract fulfillment in Vorticism, the middle term of war, finally coming to rest on Lewis' six-year exile in North America and the late works...

... be taken up, offers less than nothing as wreckage within which a movement to the future can take root. This is the Carib- bean context. “Roots,” Glissant writes, “make the commonality of errantry and exile, for in both instances roots are lacking. We must begin with that.”5 How...

... with a romanticization of exile. Yet, despite this recognition, Hochberg holds that the novel promotes Levantinism as a “state of mind”—that is, a cultural configuration that “emphasizes migration as a ‘way of being in the world.’” 8 Hochberg’s reading, which translates Matalon’s politics into the available European...

...) and actuality (contra potentiality), stillness (neither rest nor actualization, but an activity that is also a relief) drops from view. Indeed, form of life’s potential for activation here is an affirmative exile—a lacuna between essence and existing (or history and becoming) that constitutes Spinoza’s...

... machines to which Agamben alludes, I sought out an example for study in the mathematical impresario, Jean François Niceron (1613–46), a contemporary of Hobbes. During his exile in Paris, Hobbes had access to Niceron’s salon, where he entertained visitors with shows of his anamorphic images. Hobbes also...

... information. First herself was released and eventually worked from exile in Mozambique, where she was assassinated in 1982 on the order of South Africa’s security police by means of a parcel bomb. Her state-sanctioned execution was indistinguishable from a murder by thugs. The pattern of apartheid...

... genuinely enable those who were previously exiled from the public sphere to be heard. New cosmopolitanisms are caught between a politics that advocates the virtues of postcolonial, cosmopolitan democracy and a kind of managerial internationalism and global moral entrepreneurship...

... and deaf in the face of life and history. Perhaps for this reason the poets— even and above all the great- est poets, Homer and the tragedians he loved so much— are exiled by Plato, in a famous chapter of The Republic, from his ideal state and from the spiritual formation...