Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abstract; A Note on Transliteration; Chapter 1 Introduction; Expatriation Versus Exile; American Literary Expatriation Versus Palestinian Literary Exile; Critical Methodology; References; Chapter 2 Voluntary/Involuntary Departures: The Complications of Exile and Belonging in Malcolm Cowley and Fawaz Turki; Contextualising Departures; Reconsidering Voluntary Departure: A Search for Sanctuary or Opportunity?; The Exile/Home Dichotomy; 'Exilic' Consciousness and Suspended Return; 'Statelessness Is Your Only State'; A Final Note; References

Chapter 3 Centrifugal/Centripetal Movements: Placelessness and the Subversive Tactics of Mobility in Ernest Hemingway and Jabra Ibrahim JabraPlace, 'Non-place', Placelessness, Mobility; Place and Placelessness in Fiesta; The Sea Metonym in Jabra's The Ship: Place, Placelessness and 'Non-Place'; 'Existential Outsidedness' and Motion in Fiesta; 'Existential Outsidedness' and Motion in The Ship; Constant Centrifugal Motion in Fiesta; Centripetal Motion in Jabra's The Ship; A Final Note; References

Chapter 4 Voyage In/Voyage Out: The Place of Origin and Identity (Re-)Construction in Gertrude Stein and Edward SaidGertrude Stein's National and Linguistic Identity; Edward Said: Identity and the Space of Language; Stein's Voyage Out and Identity Politics; Said's 'Voyage In' and Identity Politics; A Final Note; References; Chapter 5 Possible/Impossible Returns: The Questions of Roots and Routes in Thomas Wolfe and Mourid Barghouti; 'Possible' Physical Return in Wolfe, Stein and Hemingway; 'Impossible' Return (Aʻwdah) in Barghouti and Karmi; Roots and Routes in Stein and Wolfe

Roots and Routes in Karmi and BarghoutiA Final Note; References; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index