Cultures of Exile

Images of Displacement
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-591-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections

Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acutely expressed by, the fluidity of the visual image. The essays in this volume examine issues such as remembering and forgetting trauma and nostalgia, time and space, social and sexual exclusion in relation to visual media and new technologies, cinema and the visual arts. The multi-facetted and interdisciplinary exploration of exile and displacement — whether geographical, temporal, corporeal or performative — provides an important analysis of a significant and fascinating aspect of contemporary culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Everett, Wendy

Wagstaff, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART I: SPACE

Chapter 1. Exile and Displacement in the Cinema of Tony Gatlif: Les Princes (1983) and Gadjo dilo (1998)

Carrie Tarr

Chapter 2. Leaving Home: Exile and Displacement in Contemporary European Cinema

Wendy Everett

Chapter 3. The Exile of Remembering: Movement and Memory in Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil

Catherine Lupton

PART II: TIME

Chapter 4. ‘Island of Tears’: Georges Perec, Ellis Island and the Exile’s Lost Past

Peter Wagstaff

Chapter 5. Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: the Work of Arnold Daghani

Deborah Schultz

Chapter 6. Chantal Akerman: a Struggle with Exile

Lieve Spaas

Chapter 7. Memory and Exile in the Bill Douglas Trilogy

Christine Sprengler

PART III: BODY

Chapter 8. Exile and the Body

Gabriele Griffin

Chapter 9. The Transgendered Individual as Exilic Travelling Subject

Feroza Basu

Chapter 10. Andy Warhol and the Strategic Exile of the Self

Chris Horrocks

Chapter 11. Exiles of Normality: Photography and the Representation of Diseased Bodies

Richard Sawdon Smith

Notes on Contributors

Select Bibliography

Select Filmography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Everett, Wendy
Wendy Everett is Reader in French and Film. She is a graduate of the University of Wales, and carried out postgraduate research in London, and Paris, where she also lectured and worked as a freelance translator. Her principal research interests are in European cinema, and recent publications in this field include Revisiting Space (Peter Lang, 2005), European Identity in Cinema (Intellect, 2005), Terence Davies (Manchester University Press, 2004) and The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity (Rodopi, 2000), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She regularly lectures and gives papers in Europe and the US.

Wagstaff, Peter
Peter Wagstaff is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bath. His research interests are chiefly in autobiography, from the eighteenth century to the present, and questions of identity in a cross-national context. His other publications include Border Crossings: Mapping Identities in Modern Europe (Peter Lang, 2004) and Regionalism New Europe (Intellect, 1999).

Wendy Everett is Reader in French and Film. She is a graduate of the University of Wales, and carried out postgraduate research in London, and Paris, where she also lectured and worked as a freelance translator. Her principal research interests are in European cinema, and recent publications in this field include Revisiting Space (Peter Lang, 2005), European Identity in Cinema (Intellect, 2005), Terence Davies (Manchester University Press, 2004) and The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity (Rodopi, 2000), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She regularly lectures and gives papers in Europe and the US.