Human history is one of diasporas collective and individual, and representations of exile both literary and theoretical are as various as the phenomenon of exile itself: statelessness, homelessness, as well as a state of mind Edward Said called metaphorical exile and Georg Lukacs called transcendental homelessness. In this course, we will examine novelistic, autobiographical and theoretical accounts of the experience of exile.
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Human history is one of diasporas collective and individual, and representations of exile both literary and theoretical are as various as the phenomenon of exile itself: statelessness, homelessness, as well as a state of mind Edward Said called metaphorical exile and Georg Lukacs called transcendental homelessness. In this course, we will examine novelistic, autobiographical and theoretical accounts of the experience of exile.