Name of student: Ahmed Joudar Department of Comparative literature
Second semester: Research plan Spring 2017: (1st report)
Supervisors: Prof. Kürtösi Katalin & Prof. Fogarasi György
Title: A critical study: How Edward Said explicated the predicament of Exile through the works of 20th century novelists.
The Twentieth century can be considered as a highway in which several ideas, attitudes, and opinions in arts, history, politics, and literature exchanging each other. Thinkers and scholars of that period give birth to their new ideas which some of these thoughts are the way for a great change in the world. Some …show more content…
His consciousness of being at odds with his environment was a deep part of Said’s identity wherever he was, even in New York City. Nevertheless, Said produced critical and scholarly works that engaged with his experiences growing up in his homeland and his new residence after displacement. Therefore, these works became a kind of hybridity, expressing a sense of homelessness, nostalgia. So my work will analyze how the writers could connect the previous experience with new experience after displacement, but before I would like to investigate Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity to help me when I analyze the association between previous and new experience that will be the reference to Bhabha’s book “The Location of Culture”.
Exile can be voluntary or involuntary, so I will investigate what is the two kinds of exile, then I will examine if these two kinds influenced on the works of the writers when they produced their work in the twentieth century with reference to the books of Iain Chambers “Migrancy, Culture, Identity”, Edward Said “Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures”, “the Critic in Exile”, “The World the Text and the Critic” and …show more content…
These writings in dislocated circumstances are often termed as exile literature. World literature has an abundance of writers whose writings have prospered while they were in exile. The critic Homi Bhabha exemplifies this view in his book (The Location of Culture) “The study of world literature might be the study of the way in which cultures recognize themselves through their projections of ‘otherness.’ Where, once, the transmission of national traditions was the major theme of a world literature, perhaps we can now suggest that transnational histories of migrants, the colonized, or political refugees - these border and frontier conditions - may be the terrains of world literature”
Second semester: Research plan Spring 2017: (1st report)
Supervisors: Prof. Kürtösi Katalin & Prof. Fogarasi György
Title: A critical study: How Edward Said explicated the predicament of Exile through the works of 20th century novelists.
The Twentieth century can be considered as a highway in which several ideas, attitudes, and opinions in arts, history, politics, and literature exchanging each other. Thinkers and scholars of that period give birth to their new ideas which some of these thoughts are the way for a great change in the world. Some …show more content…
His consciousness of being at odds with his environment was a deep part of Said’s identity wherever he was, even in New York City. Nevertheless, Said produced critical and scholarly works that engaged with his experiences growing up in his homeland and his new residence after displacement. Therefore, these works became a kind of hybridity, expressing a sense of homelessness, nostalgia. So my work will analyze how the writers could connect the previous experience with new experience after displacement, but before I would like to investigate Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity to help me when I analyze the association between previous and new experience that will be the reference to Bhabha’s book “The Location of Culture”.
Exile can be voluntary or involuntary, so I will investigate what is the two kinds of exile, then I will examine if these two kinds influenced on the works of the writers when they produced their work in the twentieth century with reference to the books of Iain Chambers “Migrancy, Culture, Identity”, Edward Said “Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures”, “the Critic in Exile”, “The World the Text and the Critic” and …show more content…
These writings in dislocated circumstances are often termed as exile literature. World literature has an abundance of writers whose writings have prospered while they were in exile. The critic Homi Bhabha exemplifies this view in his book (The Location of Culture) “The study of world literature might be the study of the way in which cultures recognize themselves through their projections of ‘otherness.’ Where, once, the transmission of national traditions was the major theme of a world literature, perhaps we can now suggest that transnational histories of migrants, the colonized, or political refugees - these border and frontier conditions - may be the terrains of world literature”