This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributions to this volume give due attention to the twentieth century migratory phenomena, theorised by Edward Said, Julia Kristeva and Salman Rushdie. They also show that the discourse and experience of exile is not the stuff of modernity alone. The volume illustrates that the waning of the Middle Ages, Reformation and Restoration politics, and the importation of Egyptian mummies into a nineteenth-century England hungry for imperial exotica reveal displacement, dislocation, otherness and the uncanniness of observing strangers-on-display to have long been part of European cultural currency. The essays range across a variety of disciplines: literary studies, modern languages, history of science, philosophy and museum studies.

About the Author
Sharon Ouditt, The Nottingham Trent University, UK Sharon Ouditt, Enrico Giaccherini, Lynne Long, Douglas Burnham, Michael Davies, Susan Pearce, Andrew Hammond, Alex Keller, Martin Halliwell, Kathleen Bell, Daniel Cordle, Nicoletta Caputo, Carla Dente, Yvette Rocheron, Marina Spunta.


Book Information
ISBN 9780754605119
Author Sharon Ouditt
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 476g