Outlandish
Subtitle: writing between exile and diaspora
By: Nico Israel.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation; Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Exiles in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Exile (Punishment) in literature; Immigrants in literature
Description: "Outlandish addresses geographical displacement as a lived experience in the twentieth century, as a predicament of writing, and as a problem for theory. It focuses on the work of three transitional writers from diverse backgrounds working in different genres: Joseph Conrad, the Ukrainian-born Polish novelist and storywriter living in Britain at the turn of the century; Theodor W.

Adorno, the German-Jewish philosopher and sociologist transplanted to Los Angeles during the Second World War; and Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British novelist and journalist, recently released from the peculiar conditions of his notorious houseless arrest.".

"The author argues that Conrad, Adorno, and Rushdie emblematize significant shifts over the course of the century, from a modernist expression of almost universal deracination, to a post-Auschwitz disarticulation of home and subjectivity, to an emergent conceptualization of displacement in terms of migrancy, hybridity, and flow."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.