Outlandish: Writing Between Exile and Diaspora Book

	Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction: Writing between Exile and Diaspora	1
	Voyage Out	1
	Tropics of Displacement	4
	Place Matters	5
	Unheimlich(e) Maneuvers	8
	The Rhetoric of Displacement	11
	Forcing the Issue of Choice	13
	The Map	18
Chapter 1	Conrad and the Cultural Geography of Exile	23
	The Aura, The Aura	23
	Fostering Difference	28
	Vexed Encounters	31
	Only (Dis) Connect	39
	Mach es Kurz!	51
	I had jumped ... it seems	58
	Usque ad Finem	71
	"Et apres? There is an apres."	74
Chapter 2	Adorno, Los Angeles, and the Dislocation of Culture	75
	Flying T.W.A.	75
	Blue Note	78
	Ac-cen-tu-ate the Negative	85
	From Monad to Nomad, and Back	97
	Subversive Elements	101
	Split Personalities	116
	Future Perfect	118
	Coda	120
Chapter 3	The Place of Salman Rushdie	123
	Preamble	123
	Finding Elbaroom	130
	States of Emergency	137
	Translating History	148
	To the Devil	157
	Homing Devices	174
	Postscript	177
	Notes	179
	Works Cited	225
	Index	239