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"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 transnational 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. He theorizes a mode of reading between exile and diaspora two fundamentally different descriptions of displacement and allows the outlandish writing of these three figures to complicate this seemingly continuous trajectory.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Outlandish
• Author: Nico Israel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780804730730
• ISBN: 0804730733
• ID: 01335159
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2000

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