Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile and Memory - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565845048 ISBN 13: 9781565845046

Verlag: The New Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

The five commissioned essays in this volume are all concerned with exile, home, and memory. Andre Aciman traces his migration from his home in Egypt to Italy and the United States and compares his own transience with the unrootedness of many moderns. Eva Hoffman examines the crucial role of language and what happens when your first is lost. Edward Said defends his conflicting political and cultural allegiances. Novelist Bharat Mukherjee explores her own struggle with assimilation. Finally, Charles Simic remembers the comedy of bureaucracy he experienced as a 16-year-old "displaced person" in Paris after the war, and his thwarted attempts at "fitting in" in America.

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Reseña del editor

"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" (Publishers Weekly) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors inLetters of Transit have written award-winning works on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. Now in paperback are five newly commissioned essays offering moving distillations of their most important thinking on these themes. Andre Aciman traces his migrations and compares his own transience with the uprootedness of many moderns. Eva Hoffman examines the crucial role of language and what happens when your first one is lost. Edward Said defends his conflicting political and cultural allegiances. Novelist Bharati Mukherjee explores her own struggle with assimilation. Finally, Charles Simic remembers his thwarted attempts at "fitting in" in America.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565845048
• ISBN 13: 9781565845046
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Herausgeber: Aciman Andre
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar