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CULTURES OF EXILE

Images of Displacement

Edited by Wendy Everett and Peter Wagstaff, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath

256 pages, 10 ills, index
ISBN 978-1-57181-591-0 Hb $60.00/£40.00 Published ( 2004)
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Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acutely expressed by, the fluidity of the visual image. The essays in this volume examine issues such as remembering and forgetting trauma and nostalgia, time and space, social and sexual exclusion in relation to visual media and new technologies, cinema and the visual arts. The multi-facetted and interdisciplinary exploration of exile and displacement — whether geographical, temporal, corporeal or performative — provides an important analysis of a significant and fascinating aspect of contemporary culture.

Series: Volume 7, Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections

List of Illustrations Introduction

PART I: SPACE Chapter 1. Exile and Displacement in the Cinema of Tony Gatlif: Les Princes (1983) and Gadjo dilo (1998) Carrie Tarr Chapter 2. Leaving Home: Exile and Displacement in Contemporary European Cinema Wendy Everett Chapter 3. The Exile of Remembering: Movement and Memory in Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil Catherine Lupton

PART II: TIME Chapter 4. ‘Island of Tears’: Georges Perec, Ellis Island and the Exile’s Lost Past Peter Wagstaff Chapter 5. Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: the Work of Arnold Daghani Deborah Schultz Chapter 6. Chantal Akerman: a Struggle with Exile Lieve Spaas Chapter 7. Memory and Exile in the Bill Douglas Trilogy Christine Sprengler

PART III: BODY Chapter 8. Exile and the Body Gabriele Griffin Chapter 9. The Transgendered Individual as Exilic Travelling Subject Feroza Basu Chapter 10. Andy Warhol and the Strategic Exile of the Self Chris Horrocks Chapter 11. Exiles of Normality: Photography and the Representation of Diseased Bodies Richard Sawdon Smith

Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Select Filmography Index

CULTURES OF EXILE

Images of Displacement

Edited by Wendy Everett and Peter Wagstaff, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath

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