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Polish, hybrid, and otherwise : exilic discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz /
Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind. It considers the entwined phenomena of expatriation and homelessness, and the artistic responses to these conditions, including reconstructions of iden...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind. It considers the entwined phenomena of expatriation and homelessness, and the artistic responses to these conditions, including reconstructions of identity and the creation of idealized new homelands. Conrad and Gombrowicz, writers who lived with the condition of exile, were in the vanguard of what today has become a thriving intellectual community of transnationals whose calling card is precisely their hybridity and fluency in multiple cultural t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441130167 1441130160 |