Exile in Global Literature and Culture

Asher Z. Milbauer is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Exile Studies Certificate Program at Florida International University. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. His publications pertaining to exile and its consequences include a book on literary transplantation, Transcending Exile: Conrad, Nabokov, I. B. Singer; a co-edited collection of original essays, Reading Philip Roth; an extended essay on exile and return, "Eastern Europe in American-Jewish Literature"; and another piece, "Life Encounters: Reflections on Elie Wiesel." He has also co-authored two other essays, "The Burdens of Inheritance" and "The Reluctant Witness," both of which treat significant aspects of exilic experience. His scholarly/experiential essay, "In Search of a Doorpost: Meditations on Exile and Literature," won the Sarah Russo Prize for an Essay on Exile. He was recognized as an "FIU Top Scholar" in 2015.James M. Sutton is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University. He has taught in England, Italy, and Slovenia. He holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University in 1995. He is the author of Materializing Space at an Early Modern Prodigy House: The Cecils at Theobalds, 1564–1607 (Ashgate 2005), in addition to related articles. In February 2016, he served as project lead when Florida International University exhibited a Folger Shakespeare Library First Folio (as part of the nationwide tour, "First Folio!: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare," jointly arranged by the ALA and the Folger). His current research foregrounds "local Shakespeares" in Slovenia and South Florida. This work bridges Shakespeare to issues of exile, transplantation, immigration, and (in Miami) Latinx identities.

• Introduction: The Overreaching Arc of ExileAsher Z. Milbauer and James M. SuttonChapter 1: Exile and Return in Jewish Teaching and TraditionDavid PattersonChapter 2: Exile, Dislocation and Roman Identity in the Age of AugustusSarah T. CohenChapter 3: "I Am not What I Am": Considerations of Shakespearean ExileJames M. Sutton Chapter 4: The Problem of Exile for James JoyceMichael Patrick GillespieChapter 5: José Martí: Just Another Face in the CrowdUva de AragónChapter 6: Exile as Metaphor and Memory: The Case of Salman RushdieMartin Tucker Chapter 7: The Reluctant Exile: Remembering the Exilic Legacy of the Hungarian Jewish Poet, Miklós RadnótiZsuzsanna Ozsváth Chapter 8: Elie Wiesel: Writer as Witness to and in ExileAlan L. BergerChapter 9: Exiled from the Mother Tongue: Russian Writers Abroad David MarkishChapter 10: The Exiled LanguageNorman Manea Chapter 11: Dreamers and Lifers: Exile Terminable and InterminableGustavo Pérez Firmat Chapter 12: Of Poetry, Place, and Personhood: or the Exacting Resonances of LanguageAbena P. A. BusiaChapter 13: Landscapes and Geographies of Chilean ExileMarjorie AgosínChapter 14: On the State of Exile Studies: Past, Present and FutureGuy Stern Chapter 15: Traveling with My Selves Ana Menéndez Chapter 16: Mirages of Imaginary ExileRichard BlancoChapter 17: The Literature of Exile: Reading and TeachingHolli LevitskyChapter 18: An Interview with Cuban-American Artist, Humberto Calzada: Exile, Nostalgia and the Art of MemoryAsher Z. Milbauer and James M. SuttonContributor’s BiographiesIndex

We are a nomadic species, constantly driven towards wanted and unwanted horizons by war, famine, and persecution of all kinds, but also by a need for change. This formidable collection chronicles our ongoing displacements and, by asking where we are going and why, makes us reflect on who we are and who we dream of being. In these times of global upheaval, this book is essential reading.-Alberto Manguel, Argentinian-Canadian-French polyglot, author, critic and intellectual. He is formerly the director of the Argentine National Library, and a modern-day Borges.Exile in Global Literature and Culture is a deeply thoughtful collection of pieces by scholars, writers, and artists, whose first-hand and more distanced accounts of exile eloquently speak to the geographical and psychological condition of the dispossessed, the uprooted, and the displaced and to the generational impact and inheritance of a legacy of exile. Together these chapters are a register of loss but also a testament to recovery, endurance, and return, a stunning tribute to the ability to negotiate disparate worlds.-Victoria Aarons, noted author and scholar in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. She is the O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio Texas. In this intimate and moving exploration of the meaning of exile, a brilliant group of international authors ponder where to look for home in our age of displacement. An important and timely book that will resonate with readers around the globe.-Ruth Behar, Cuban-American thinker, poet and anthropologist, and a MacArthur Fellow. She currently holds the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.