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"On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range of artistic works. From the possibilities and limitations of translation addressed by Jhumpa Lahiri and David Malouf to the effects of shifting borders in the writings of Eugenio Montale, W. G. Sebald, Colm Tóibín, and many others, esteemed literary critic Mary Jacobus looks at the ways novelists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers revise narratives of language, identity, and exile. Jacobus's attentive readings of texts and images seek to answer the question: What does it mean to identify as-or with-an outsider? Walls and border-crossings, nomadic wanderings and Alpine walking, the urge to travel and the yearning for home-Jacobus braids together such threads in disparate times and geographies. She plumbs the experiences of Ovid in exile, Frankenstein's outcast Being, Elizabeth Bishop in Nova Scotia and Brazil, Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood, and Sophocles's Antigone in the wilderness. Throughout, Jacobus trains her eye on issues of transformation and translocation; the traumas of partings, journeys, and returns; and confrontations with memory and the past. Focusing on human conditions both modern and timeless, On Belonging and Not Belonging offers a unique consideration of inclusion and exclusion in our world"-- "A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita Dean"--

Translating and interpreting. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Aeneid. --- Alterity. --- Ambiguity. --- An Imaginary Life. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anxiety. --- Aphorism. --- Artifice. --- Authoritarianism. --- Barbarian. --- Bildungsroman. --- Boredom. --- Circumstantial evidence. --- Civil disobedience. --- Contradiction. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Cruelty. --- Dasein. --- Death. --- Delusion. --- Demagogue. --- Deportation. --- Disfigurement. --- Duress. --- Dusty Answer. --- Elegy. --- Enemy of the people. --- Enemy of the state. --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Exile. --- Existential crisis. --- Fatalism. --- Foreign language. --- Forgetting. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Homesickness. --- Hostility. --- Impiety. --- In Another Country. --- Indirect speech. --- Infinite regress. --- Internment. --- Irony. --- Irrationality. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Kitsch. --- Lament. --- Land of Darkness. --- Limite. --- Loss and Gain. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Memoir. --- Mourning. --- Muteness. --- Narrative. --- Neglect. --- No man's land. --- Nonperson. --- Nonviolent resistance. --- Obscenity. --- Obsolescence. --- Oppression. --- Palinurus. --- Pathos. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Poetry. --- Political dissent. --- Precarity. --- Prejudice. --- Refugee. --- Repressed memory. --- Right of asylum. --- Scrap. --- Self-destructive behavior. --- Shame. --- Slavery. --- Social rejection. --- Solecism. --- Sophocles. --- State of exception. --- Statelessness. --- Surrealism. --- Tearing. --- The Unwritten. --- To the Contrary. --- Torture. --- Toward the Unknown. --- Tragedy. --- Tristia. --- Unpacking. --- Untranslatability. --- V. --- Vulnerability. --- Walser. --- Waste. --- Wrinkle. --- Writing. --- Translating and interpreting --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature