EXILE LITERATURE: some variants M.V. Ramana Moorthy, Associate Professor Department of English, K.L.University, A.P
Abstract: Exile literature has always attracted a lot of critical attention because of the poignant issues it raised. Particularly significant is the wide range of variants that the exile of the mind has and the creativity and innovations it sets into motion. Some authors were exiled or ostracized for holding atheistic or radical beliefs. A few others felt that the literary and artistic ambience provided by their native countries was too narrow , conventional and uninspiring. and went in search of a more fertile intellectual …show more content…
Some writers like Shelley and Hardy are ostracized for holding atheistic and radical beliefs that were not appreciated by the society. While Shelley was expelled from Oxford and then had to leave England, Hardy had to face the wrath of the conservative English public. His controversial novel Jude the Obscure was banned and copies of the book were publicly burnt. After that Hardy stopped writing fiction and though he published a number of poems he certainly lost the verve and rhythm necessary for the creative artist. Despite these two sordid examples , exile literature has always evinced an immense reader interest , as there is a great challenge and a rare opportunity for the writer to stage a heroic struggle and overcome the adverse circumstances. Further, exile literature is not just confined to physical exile in the strictest sense of the word. The mind also can go into exile , and it may be self-exile or intellectual or ideational isolation which sets forth a whole lot of new set of crises. This article seeks to explore these surprisingly extensive variants of exile
Abstract: Exile literature has always attracted a lot of critical attention because of the poignant issues it raised. Particularly significant is the wide range of variants that the exile of the mind has and the creativity and innovations it sets into motion. Some authors were exiled or ostracized for holding atheistic or radical beliefs. A few others felt that the literary and artistic ambience provided by their native countries was too narrow , conventional and uninspiring. and went in search of a more fertile intellectual …show more content…
Some writers like Shelley and Hardy are ostracized for holding atheistic and radical beliefs that were not appreciated by the society. While Shelley was expelled from Oxford and then had to leave England, Hardy had to face the wrath of the conservative English public. His controversial novel Jude the Obscure was banned and copies of the book were publicly burnt. After that Hardy stopped writing fiction and though he published a number of poems he certainly lost the verve and rhythm necessary for the creative artist. Despite these two sordid examples , exile literature has always evinced an immense reader interest , as there is a great challenge and a rare opportunity for the writer to stage a heroic struggle and overcome the adverse circumstances. Further, exile literature is not just confined to physical exile in the strictest sense of the word. The mind also can go into exile , and it may be self-exile or intellectual or ideational isolation which sets forth a whole lot of new set of crises. This article seeks to explore these surprisingly extensive variants of exile