Title Placeless people : writings, rights, and refugees / Lyndsey Stonebridge

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) Contents Introduction: Placeless people: writings, rights, and refugees -- Part One. Reading statelessness. Reading statelessness: Arendt's Kafka ; Hannah Arendt's message of ill tidings -- Part Two. Placeless people. Orwell's Jews ; Simone Weil's uprooted ; Beckett's expelled -- Part Three. Sands of sorrow. Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine ; Statelessness and the poetry of the borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Summary "In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word "exile" which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the political and imaginative history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought. For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, and Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights. Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2018) Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast Subject Exiles' writings -- 20th century -- History and criticism Refugees in literature. Expatriate authors. Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Refugees -- Social conditions LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 20th Century. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Exiles' writings Expatriate authors Literature, Modern Refugees in literature Refugees -- Social conditions Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192517364 0192517368 9780191838637 0191838632

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