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Placeless people : writings, rights, and refugees /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stonebridge, Lyndsey, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.