Title: Outlandish
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Emigration and immigration in literature, English fiction, Exile (Punishment) in literature, Exiles in literature, History and criticism, Immigrants in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Emmigration and immigration in literature
People: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Salman Rushdie, Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
Time periods: 20th century