Exile, Language and Identity Book

Papers from a May-June 2001 colloquium held in East Sussex, England, examine the exile's process of reconnecting with the outside world and discovering a voice and means of expression from within the particular space exiles occupy—both in terms of geography and time. Fourteen contributions are organized into sections on ways in which the arts represent exilic dilemmas; the role of language in constructing and reconstructing social identities; and exile, memory and the limits of language. A sampling of topics: fictional exiles in postcolonial francophone literature, the problem of identity and language in refuges from the (former) Yugoslavia, and non-verbal forms of communication of women survivors of torture. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR