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Relegated from Rome to Tomis around 8 A.D., after a sea-voyage which lasted months, forced to give up the circle of high life where he used to be so admired and cherished, Ovid found himself in the land of dissonance. The sources of his dissonance were: the perceived reception of his own poetry, the nature of harsher climate, the life-threatening attacks of the Barbarians and his own fears of illness. Ovid needed a "bandwidth" of communication and resonance and he found it in books, both as objects and as a legacy. The book (liber/libri) was free (liber') to travel to Rome in his place and to receive all the valences of a compensatory myth. Moreover, book (in its ancient form of "volumen") retrieves in "Tristia" the vocabulary of resonating with other people. Books, his own and of other writers, are the mysterious path to a much needed reconciliation with Tomitan people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dramatic piece A Country at the Cruxifixion is a portrait written to be read, with another version to play on the stage under the title Confixus. As a portrait, it narrates the internal conflicts of the Franciscan author, who experienced the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the exile. The drama is also a representation of Basque Christian society and the rawness of existence of that generation. Mitxelena wrote the portrait of these conflicts in the theater code building a metatheatre spectacle with historical data and a way of understanding existentialism combined with Christianity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The theme of exile has recently been the subject of renewed interest among medieval specialists. The praxeology of exile can be analyzed from different perspectives. In theological language, the human condition itself is often assimilated to that of a homo viator, the pilgrim who constantly travels towards the ultimate homeland, after the expulsion from Eden and the weakening of his intellectual, moral, and physical capacities. The exiled abandon their world, a universe made of certainties and stable relationships, to venture into an unknown and perilous world. For these reasons, during the Middle Ages, long journeys were usually organized in groups. However, sometimes the solitude of "peregrinatio" could not be avoided. The idea of exile always presupposes an antinomy between what is "external" and what is "internal," and naturally, everything related to the external has a negative valence. From the "external" world come all those people on the margins of society: outlaws, prostitutes, and infidels. Going against the norms of good society meant the expulsion from the "internal" to the "external" world, a spatial-temporal upheaval that brought the exiled closer to marginalized people. Medieval literature often addressed the theme of exile between the 12th and 14th centuries, where the experience of distance is a topos of French courtly literature. Several representative texts of the period address the theme: the masterpiece of Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, in which the male protagonist, thanks to exile and the quest for adventures, will regain measure, a fundamental element to still be considered a true knight. We find the same theme also in the dramatic exile of Tristan and Isolde, one of the most appreciated profane literary works of the 12th century, which, despite some "physiological" evolutions, continues to survive today. It is a work that has affected all Western civilization for sociological, literary, but also psychological reasons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Diaspora writers depict the pangs of loneliness and alienation of the people living a diaspora life in foreign land. Motherland forms the emotional psyche of people who carries its burden to the settled land of their choice. Migration frames the world only to disperse with identities which sets differences between the host countrymen and the migrated people. The utmost result occurs with alienation, loneliness and a feeling of separateness in the behavioural patterns. The attachment with ones motherland causes detachment with the newly formed places. Such diaspora consciousness is apparent in the writings of the diaspora writers. The present research article is a sincere attempt to focus on the narratives of motherland which celebrates the love for motherland of diaspora writer Kiran Desai through her the Man Booker Prize winner novel The Inheritance of Loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Response to the 45th Annual Foulkes Lecture: When foundation matrices move - reflections on the "third global world" The other is constructed from the lens of a "political refugee", who was not welcomed easily with her blue UNHCR political refugee passport in any western country. Keywords: the Other; power; exile; privilege; trauma; double reality; refugee experiences EN the Other power exile privilege trauma double reality refugee experiences 511 515 5 12/19/22 20221201 NES 221201 Hello everyone, Thank you, Regine, for inviting me to be one of the respondents to your thought-provoking lecture: I When foundation matrices move - challenges for a group analysis of our time i ([2]). [Extracted from the article]

Meir ibn Gabbai (1480–ca. 1540) was an influential kabbalist active in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was born in Spain, but following the edict of expulsion in 1492, he and his family fled and resettled in the Ottoman Empire. There, he composed three important works that enjoyed a wide readership and shaped the views of subsequent generations of kabbalists. While these texts do not reflect an interest in chronicling historical events, they are a rich resource for understanding how Jews in this period understood themselves within the broader sweep of history, and how they assigned meaning to collective Jewish historical experience. Ibn Gabbai regarded the dissemination of Kabbalah through the composition of kabbalistic books as a means by which Jews could survive the traumas of exile and correct the course of human and cosmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of medieval kabbalistic texts, ibn Gabbai argued for the power of Jewish religious practice as a mechanism for rebalancing the divine realm, perfecting the cosmic order, and returning the Jewish people to their proper place in the world of human affairs and flow of historical time. The rhetorical strategies evident in ibn Gabbai's texts reveal a remarkably self-aware approach to the importance of kabbalistic discourse for sustaining Jewish life in the face of historical challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we will evaluate the disagreements that Jews in England with the Christian people and administrators between the years 1066-1290 and the reason for these. The first of the main issues that we will consider is the change in the way of life of Jews. Although there were very few attacks on them in the early periods, this situation was reversed after increased support for the Crusaders in England. The second is that they earn income from usury and divide this income with the kings. In addition, will examine the attacks of the people against them for various reasons despite this partnership between the kings and the Jews. Interestingly, sometimes kings acted together with the people and imposed various sanctions against them. King Edward I was the most insistent on this sanction. We will examine Edward's expulsion of the Jews and the consequences of this incident, despite the fact that they are source of income. In our article, we will touch on the discussions about the usury activities of the Jews and their wealth. In our study, we took care to deal with the events by making use of period witnesses such as Matthew Paris, Roger of Wendover, Thomas of Monmouth, Jocelin of Brakelond, Richard of Devizes. In doing so, we kept in mind that the witnesses of the period were even more anti-Semitic than the church. In addition to the witnesses of the period, we have benefited from the comments of modern researchers on the subject, especially C. Roth, J. Jacobs, L. Abrahams, P. Elman, R. R. Mundill, B. D. Ovrut and H. G. Richardson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent is an Arab American literary piece of fiction that symbolizes the remarkable emergence of this kind of literature in the early years of the twenty-first century. The social and political atmosphere in the USA after 9/11 ushered in the rise of this ethnic literature to worldwide prominence. In addition to the desire to challenge the multi-faceted oppression that Arab Americans confront in the USA – gender-related, sexual, racial, and ethnic – the literary canon of Arab American writers also discuss the experiences of exile and displacement that Arabs go through when settling in the USA and how such experiences affect their sense of authenticity. As such, this paper examines the politics of exile as projected in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent, taking the co-protagonist Han as a prototype of Arab exiles living in the USA. In addition to employing critical and analytical approaches to the novel, this paper relies on a socio-cultural conceptual framework based on perspectives of prominent critics such as Edward Said, Avtar Brah, and Svetlana Boym, to name a few. This paper argues that the politics of exile – such as nostalgia, memory, and displacement – make Arab American identity more convoluted and interlaced with the dilemma of authenticity, featuring feelings of estrangement, loneliness, and homesickness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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On 10 June 2021, the Norwegian translator Signe Prøis (for publisher Camino Forlag) organised an event with both Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian (both by video link from New Zealand and Australia) in conversation with translation studies scholar Erlend Wichne (University of Agder, Norway; Agder forum for translation studies). The event was titled: 'Can I translate it? On representing extreme experiences in writing and translation'. The dialogue in this article features excerpts from the seminar with a focus on Tofighian's translation of Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (2018) into English. The topics covered include responsibility, translation as activism, some aspects of the broader context to translating No Friend but the Mountains, the role of place, and a shared philosophical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction offers a survey of Border Studies and Diaspora Theory to contextualize the ways in which contemporary fictions of migration in the 21st century have reinterpreted classic paradigms. Literature has played a paramount role in illustrating many of the challenges of narrating the experience of migration. This role is the motivation for this Special Issue as it examines the literary mechanisms that engage with current social, economic, and political issues and shows how discourses on migration contest perspectives on concepts such as "mobility" or "space." Thus after contextualizing "the Black Atlantic," "diaspora space," "third scenario," "necropolitics" or "gore capitalism," this introduction describes the contributors' diverse critical readings, which are presented and organized to illustrate the evolution of academic research around Diaspora Studies. The new avenues of research that 21st‐century migration has fostered bear witness to the complex and intricate phenomena of human mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Arab uprisings of 2011, and their slogans of freedom, dignity and justice, gave the Arab diaspora hope. Their aftermath led to disappointment, but many Arab diasporans still dream of returning home. The tension between their real, imagined and in-transit homes keeps these immigrants in home and exile simultaneously. The paper analyses the negotiation between distant and present, real and imagined homes, in finding and settling into a new home in the Arab diaspora in Berlin. It discusses the theory that the modern public sphere is primarily attached to territorially defined modern nation-states. Migration and transnationalism have challenged the bounded nature of nation-states and have allowed forces from and outside national territories to interact with forces beyond territorial limits, via satellite TV channels, social media and migration. This transnational push in the national public sphere has empowered the Arab diaspora to renegotiate their belonging to their host and home countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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William Shakespeare's King Lear (1605) is known for its projection of madness, similar to Toba Tek Singh (1955) penned by Sadat Hassan Manto. The paper aims to analyze the driving force behind this madness of characters of these two narratives. Both Shakespeare and Manto have presented it through the madness of characters and space, making exile a universal ideology. Thus, this study aims to research the concept of madness through journey via Edward W. Said's Exile -- "as a discontinuous state of being" (139). The exile of Cordelia and King Lear from Shakespeare's play, King Lear will be demonstrated with a comparative study with the expatriate of Bishan Singh and other lunatics from Manto's Toba Tek Singh. The research focuses on "the compound misery of "undocumented" people" who are banished just because of their deviance displayed in King Lear and Toba Tek Singh (Said 141). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Portrait witnesses the evolution of Stephen's new Irish art: proclamations of "silence, exile, cunning" are made to predict and dictate his future paths of artistic creation. And in Ulysses, Stephen's famous dicta undergo decisive evolution. First and foremost, the middle dictum, exile, gets revoked blatantly: instead of departing from Ireland, Stephen stays put inside the country. His involuntary, mentally-distancing act of exile now replaces the voluntary, socially-distancing stance of the earlier Stephen. However, the third mandate, cunning, sees a meaningful twist in its execution in Ulysses. Stephen's verbal art and witticism can be seen in his two works: the vampire-lover poem and the Parable of the Plums. Both exhibit the emphatic derivation of existent art, one from an English-translated Gaelic poem and the other from the biblical parabolic genre. And finally, the first dictum, silence, materializes as a dramatic enactment in Stephen's reimagination of the literary heritage of Shakespeare, bringing the bard's otherwise silenced life/history back to light. Taken together, Stephen's new Irish art can be seen propitiously forged in Ulysses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the connections between the worlds of fine art and fashion through the complex interconnections between the Parisian-Eastern European creative exile. It follows the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) and prominent inter-war Parisian Romanians: namely, Tristan Tzara, Constantin Brâncuși and Lizica Codreanu. I suggest the concept of 'simultaneous migrations' to illustrate fashion's mobility beyond and across cultural differences, identities and aesthetics through Sonia Delaunay's philosophy of Simultaneity, focusing on her inter-war Romanian connections in Paris. The research bridges across the fields of fashion studies, art history and cultural studies, in order to explicate the synapses that shed light on Sonia Delaunay's ideas of Simultaneity and colour theories to Paris as an ideological, cultural, artistic and identity hub. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines Leo Strauss's controversial and enigmatic Thoughts on Machiavelli against the backdrop of his biography. In order to understand the Thoughts on Machiavelli, it is necessary to reconstruct Strauss's intellectual development since the 1920s. The analysis then focuses on two main questions in Strauss's writings: is it possible to get a full understanding of "exile" in the context of the Jewish and the Western tradition and what does "Radical Enlightenment" mean exactly? Both concepts - "Exile" and "Radical Enlightenment" - need to be analyzed, according to Strauss, in an "exoteric" and an "esoteric" way. The conclusion of the article offers a traditional answer to Strauss's challenge: Athens and Jerusalem are not separate, as Strauss suggests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the diasporist French Jewish political group, Le Cercle Gaston Crémieux, founded in 1967 "to promote a diasporic Jewish existence without subjugation to the synagogue or to Zionism". In contrast to either an assimilationist model which demanded the acceptance of French national identity in the public sphere, or a Zionist model of Jewish nationalism, the Cercle offered a model in which the state of exile and diaspora becomes constitutive of Jewish identity, positioned as an alternate mode of being-in-the-world defined against white Christian European nationalism. Yet to expose the historically constructed, socially contingent nature of European nationalisms that claim the status of organic and natural, the Cercle had to imagine a particular narrative of the historical construction of Jewishness, and this social constructionism conflicted with the almost ontological, metaphysical status they wanted to accord to Jewish exile and otherness. Thus the Cercle failed to imagine an anti-national model of Jewishness, but this failure sheds light on larger fault lines in the possibility of a Jewish politics. The paper concludes that the Cercle's imaginal diasporic Jewishness tries to enable the articulation of other forms of minority identity, suggesting that this failure may nonetheless prove politically productive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the historians' growing interest in material culture, collections of sacred objects have largely been overlooked by scholars of religious history and art history alike. While the former tend to reduce church artifacts to their religious function, the latter focus mostly on individual items of singular artistic import. This essay examines a collection of displaced relics from the perspective of their shifting meanings and multiple uses as ritual objects, offerings, gifts, and commodities. Charting the parallel displacements of objects and people during the Polish-Ottoman wars of 1672–1699, I argue that the mutability of the relics shaped the refugees' attempts to deal with the conflicting social obligations and economic pressures of exile. Drawing on the church inventories and trial records of the Armenian communities in Poland-Lithuania, this essay offers a wider analytical framework with which to approach the problems of migration, displacement, and collective possessions in the early modern world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus, first published 1947, tells the story of a fictional German musician, Adrian Leverkühn, paralleled with the rise and fall of Germany in the first half of the 20th century. In fact, the idea of Doktor Faustus predated Mann's exile, and it had been already conceived as a work of lateness – a Faust, a Parsifal in prose. In the process of creating variations on lateness, Mann referred to the musical models of Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, and the music criticism of Theodor W. Adorno. As a product of Mann's exile in Southern California, Doktor Faustus connects the concept of lateness with his experience of exile through music, as Edward Said would later point out in his reflections on "late style." By engaging with pre-existing compositions and criticism, I will present Doktor Faustus as a novelistic rendering of musical lateness that not only engages with compositions such as Wagner's Parsifal and Mahler's Ninth Symphony but also sheds new light on the interpretation of lateness as an artistic and – above all – human experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the negative framing of environmental concern in the context of food procurement and consumption, through the lens of the myth of Eden considering the ontological and genealogical aspects of the experienced exile from nature. The article first considers the theoretical context of the negative framing of food ethics. Demonstrating the consequences of the experience of food as abject, the article then goes on to discuss the exile from Eden as an explanatory myth for the perceptual inbetweenness of humankind. The aim of the article is to outline the genealogical markers of the negative framing of food ethics via the discussion of the exile from Eden. In the context of a new materialist understanding of the nature–culture continuum, the article depicts the exile as a perceptual rather than ontological divide that does not reflect a factual human inbetweenness but mirrors the objectification of nature by stripping the flesh of its spirit. Such reenvisioning is thought to be a pivotal aspect for mitigating the affectual abjectivity of food and recapturing the factual entanglement of body–environment to enable affirmative environmental ethics.

The Polish movement of national liberation is one of the characteristic features of the history of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Tsarism reacted harshly to the uprising in Poland in 1830–1831 and the January Uprising of 1863–64. Plenty of participants were exiled under police supervision to the inner provinces of European Russia and Siberia. Correspondence became the main channel of communication for the exiles and their loved ones. Additional rules were developed at the end of 1863 in order to strengthen control over the exiled Poles, which included perlustration of postal and telegraphic correspondence by the provincial and county authorities. The purpose of the study is to analyze the extracts and copies of the letters of Polish exiles which are preserved in the State Archive of the Novgorod region and deal with the Siberian theme. The detected documents contain information that makes it possible to reconstruct certain aspects of the daily life of Poles on the way to the exile location and in the new place of their residence, to describe the moods of the exiles and their attitudes towards the events of national and local significance as well as to present individual plots of family history. The article is intended for those interested in genealogy, the history of Polonia in Russia, perlustration in the Russian Empire and the daily life of exiles.

This essay examines issues of displacement, exile, and non-belonging, and their impact on a subject’s sense of identity, in three novels by South American women writers: Ana Maria Machado (Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), and Alejandra Costamagna (Chile). Furthermore, the essay discusses how memory and postmemory are fundamental elements in narratives in which the narrator and/or protagonist set out to write and rewrite self-identity, family and national histories.

A term of relatively recent mintage, coined by German scientist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, ecology draws on ancient Greek to establish and consolidate its meaning. Although scholars all too often overlook it, the anachronistic rise of ecology in its semantic and conceptual determinations is noteworthy. Formed by analogy with economy, the word may be translated as “the articulation of a dwelling”, the logos of oikos. Here, I argue not only that a vast majority of ecosystems on the planet are subject to environmental upheavals and ecological crises, but also that ecology as the crossroads of dwelling and articulation is in crisis, having come into its own and made explicit what was silently present in its historical enunciation. As a result, ecology needs to be deromanticized, decoupled from the bucolic and the picturesque, and dissociated from nativism and autochthony. Every organism, ecosystem, or place is affected by the forces of unsettlement and displacement; all dwellings and their articulations are shaken to the core and set in motion, rendering ecologies exilic. Ecologies today share the exilic condition, which also threatens to level the differences among them, without the chance of returning to a stable origin, itself nothing other than a theoretical fiction. In what follows, I propose to chalk out the outlines of exilic ecologies.