Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca No man's language
At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging. The idea that certain poets are emblematic of a national culture is one of the chief means by which literature historicizes itself, inscribes itself in a shared cultural past and supplies...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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UCL Press
2021
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| Series: | Comparative Literature and Culture
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging. The idea that certain poets are emblematic of a national culture is one of the chief means by which literature historicizes itself, inscribes itself in a shared cultural past and supplies modes of belonging to those who consume it. But what, then, of the exiled, migrant or translingual poet? How might writing in a language other than one's mother tongue complicate this picture of the relation between poet, language and literary system? What of those for whom the practice of poetry is inseparable from a sense of restlessness or unease, suggesting a condition of not being at home in any one language, even that of their mother tongue? These questions are crucial for four French-language poets whose work is the focus of this study: Armen Lubin (1903-74), Ghérasim Luca (1913-94), Edmond Jabès (1912-91) and Michelle Grangaud (1941-). Ranging across borders within and beyond the Francosphere - from Algeria to Armenia, to Egypt, to Romania - this book shows how a poetic practice inflected by exile, statelessness or non-belonging has the potential to disrupt long-held assumptions of the relation between subjects, the language they use and the place from which they speak. |
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| ISBN: | 111.9781787356733 9781787356733 9781787356740 9781787356757 9781787356764 9781787356771 |
| Access: | Open Access |