Kerr, G.;
Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca.
Comparative Literature and Culture.
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging. The idea that certain poets are emblematic of a national culture is one of the chief means by which literature historicizes itself, inscribes itself in a shared cultural past and supplies modes of belonging to those who consume it. But what, then, of the exiled, migrant or translingual poet? How might writing in a language other than one’s mother tongue complicate this picture of the relation between poet, language and literary system? What of those for whom the practice of poetry is inseparable from a sense of restlessness or unease, suggesting a condition of not being at home in any one language, even that of their mother tongue? These questions are crucial for four French-language poets whose work is the focus of this study: Armen Lubin (1903-74), Ghérasim Luca (1913-94), Edmond Jabès (1912-91) and Michelle Grangaud (1941-). Ranging across borders within and beyond the Francosphere – from Algeria to Armenia, to Egypt, to Romania – this book shows how a poetic practice inflected by exile, statelessness or non-belonging has the potential to disrupt long-held assumptions of the relation between subjects, the language they use and the place from which they speak.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787356733 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787356733 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356733 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Greg Kerr, 2021 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Kerr, G. 2021. Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca: No man’s language. London, UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111. 9781787356733 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creative commons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to re-use any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | French poetry, exile, Lubin, Luca, Jabès |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128896 |
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