...Kathryn E. Levine Abstract The apparent ambiguity at the heart of Marie de France’s lai “Chèvrefeuille” has beguiled generations of readers. This short twelfth-century Old French verse text purports to tell a simple story of how the exiled Tristan manages to signal to Yseut as she passes through...

... anticipated a uniquely Caribbean tradition of exile literature. As Martin Munro has written in his Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature, "Haitian literature has a longstanding, sophisticated tradition of migrant writing," produced by authors driven from their homeland by the threat of violence. The writings...

... MARTIN MUNRO Bongie, Chris. Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Boyce Davies, Carole and Elaine Savory Fido, Eds. Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature. Trenton, N]: Africa World Press, 1990. Britton, Celia...

... exile in their vernacular writings. It examines how the two authors reflect on the pluralities of language and community that connect them to readerships both at home and in exile, focusing especially on Brunetto’s Rettorica and Dante’s Convivio . The essay investigates Brunetto’s rhetorical doctrine...

...María Rosón; Ana Pol Abstract This article examines the relationships that developed in exile between women writers and artists and things following the Spanish Civil War. Our analysis is based on self-writing and visual art. Using a New Materialist theoretical framework, the article shows how...

... gives us the best metaphor for the double bind of Francophony: her father's traditional decision to marry her off, as a child bride, to the French language. Wow! This so resonates with my more feebly expressed conviction that the bride in traditional exogamy is the originary diasporic, redefining exile...

... endured: exile, a loss of revenue, and social ostracism. Touching are the details which remind us every so often of the human nature of the author of "J'accuse !" We are offered an especially pleasant insight into how Zola often dealt with hardship through humor. For instance, while in exile, his...

...Sergey Zenkin 122 BOOK REVIEWS and in El arpa )' la sonzbra, where the narrative I gives an account of his life that only serves to disavow his personal responsibility. Pancrazio identifies this drive to a confession as a long standing olotif in Cuban literature and cultural history, relying here...

... reflections on “nomad poetics,” which would eventually result in the major work we did together, the compilation and translation of North African literature for the Diwân ifriqiya , volume 4 of the Poems for the Millennium series from the University of California Press. The idea of nomad poetics also...

... dandysme" or "chef du dandysme dans Ie monde moral" Baudelaire hoped to explore in an essay (Correspondance 2: 108,472), or possibly a book on dandyism in nineteenth-century literature.2 The poet's admiration also goes to the political maverick in Chateaubriand-the perpetual exile and unwavering opponent...

... and cultural meaning of translation, use of interpreters. Moreover, the author has succeeded in doing justice to neglected late medieval Occitan/Catalan literature. Particularly important is the case of the anonymous fourteenth-century nova, Frayre de Joy e Sor de Plaser, a linguistically and literary hybrid...

... conventions, a deep commitment to humanistic ethics, an ironic sense of humor, and even, to some extent, an asceticism. Like Diogenes, Ross was an exile who felt no allegiance to any place: not Australia where he grew up, nor France where he was educated and whose literary culture he loved, nor even Ann Arbor...

... for courage in battle. The armistice found his unit at Riberac, where he wrote "La Le~on de Riberac," his first theoretical explanation of the value of medieval verse to modern literature. After demobilization, however, Aragon was left in the "zone libre," without contact with any other member of the PCF...

... countries to the writers of America who have assembled here, I wish to stress the importance of this Congress which calls together the representatives of one of the greatest 3 literatures of our time. We can not stress too highly the value and the usefulness of the writer in society, nor the profound effect...

... with materiality as an object of analysis was in the 1990s in the context of the boom in memory studies, which considers the role played by things as material memories. In English studies, Bill Brown pioneered the study of things in American literature in a 2003 edited volume, followed by a 2004 sequel in which he...

... à une injonction extérieure à la démarche d’écriture elle-même ? Puisque toute langue est étrangère, comment construire son identité à l’intérieur de cette étrangeté ? La langue est le lieu habitable/habité quelles que soient les épreuves affrontées. Nous ne sommes pas en exil parce que nous...

... of diplomatic encounters on a flat, nonhierarchical plane: “an altogether singular form of ‘diplomacy’” that would grant all the modes of existence equal access to being and that would allow all the “institutions” to which those modes correspond (“both science and religion, politics and management, literature...

... and Concini fall from grace, Theophile suffers with them, being exiled for several months in 1619, till Luynes-Louis XIII's favorite courtier-calls the poet back. Of Theophile's several patrons, Concini is murdered, Candale returns to his province in disgrace, and Montmorency is mercilessly executed...

... Nolan, The Gothic Visionary Perspective (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1977); Jerome Mazzaro, The Figure of Dante: An Essay on the Vita nuova (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981); Thomas Hyde, The Poetic Theology of Love: Cupid in Renaissance Literature (Newark, NJ.: Associated...

...J. Michael Dash Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 ]. Michael Dash VITAL SIGNS IN THE BODY POLITIC: EROTICISM AND EXILE IN MARYSE CONDE AND DANY LAFERRIERE II n'y a pas de paroles sur l'Amour par ici Notre pre-litterature est de cris, de haines, de revendications, de...