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" Tropics of exile: "
N. Israel
S. W. Suleri-Goodyear, Samuel; Wicke, Jennifer
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113134
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TLpq304219617
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N. Israel
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S. W. Suleri-Goodyear, Samuel
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Tropics of exile:\ N. IsraelS. W. Suleri-Goodyear, Samuel; Wicke, Jennifer
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Yale University
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1995
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1995
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Ph.D.
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268
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This dissertation addresses both the historical predicament of twentieth-century exile and its figuration in selected fictional and non-fictional texts. Although it treats writers from disparate backgrounds working in different genres, its object of inquiry is neither primarily biographical nor merely thematic. Rather, employing a critical, inter-disciplinary approach, it explores those aspects of the exilic condition that remain under-theorized: exile's relation to nationalism and colonialism, to authority and institutionality, and to broader questions of subjectivity, language, and social space. In tracing the representation of exile through early modernism, high modernism, and emergent post-modernism, the study treats exile both as a problem for literary history and as a predicament of writing. In so doing, it seeks to intervene in current debates concerning the direction of cultural studies. Chapter One, "Conrad and the Cultural Geography of Exile," focuses on issues of racial and national identity in Joseph Conrad's "Amy Foster," Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim. Confronting the problem of "belonging"-in-exile, it examines the rhetorical structure of Conrad's colonial narratives, and demonstrates how the homoerotic relations and interracial figures in his texts destabilize the logic of a coherent "West." "Adorno and the Dislocation of Culture," the dissertation's second chapter, analyzes Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno's writings on exile, the commodification of culture, the instrumentalization of subjectivity, and the politics of difference, primarily in his Minima Moralia and in the "Elements of Anti-Semitism" chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment. The chapter focuses on the role that Los Angeles plays in helping to generate his formulations on the "administered" life, but it also shows how Adorno uneasily negotiates between his often-idiosyncratic local observations and universal philosophical claims. The dissertation's third and final chapter, "The Place of Salman Rushdie," undertakes a re-reading of Rushdie's novels--Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses--in light of the so-called Rushdie Affair. In examining questions of post-modernist literary production and post-colonial subjectivity, history, and social relations, it seeks to come to terms with Rushdie's exilic "place," located somewhere between the "posts" of contemporary global culture. ftnOriginally published in DAI Vol. 57, No. 1. Reprinted here with corrected text.
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Adorno, Theodor W.@
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British and Irish literature
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Conrad, Joseph
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Language, literature and linguistics
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Philosophy, religion and theology
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Rushdie, Salman
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Wicke, Jennifer
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