@article{839542,
      recid = {839542},
      author = {Qabaha, Ahmad Rasmi,},
      title = {Exile and expatriation in modern American and Palestinian  writing /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book examines the distinction between literary  expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of  modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that  exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political  catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It  suggests that, unlike expatriation (a choice of a foreign  land over one’s own), exile is a political rather than an  artistic concept and is forced rather than voluntary —  while exile can be emancipatory, it is always an unwelcome  loss. In addition to its historical dimension, exile also  entails a different perception of return to expatriation.  This book frames expatriates as quintessentially American,  particularly intellectuals and artists seeking a space of  creativity and social dissidence in the experience of  living away from home. At the heart of both literary  discourses, however, is a preoccupation with home,  belonging, identity, language, mobility and homecoming.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/839542},
}