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Il est difficile de trouver son identité lorsqu'on est otages de deux cultures, de deux mondes. Le fait que les jeunes immigrés, soient vus, sur leur propre sol natal, comme étant des étrangers, sinon carrément des français, illustre... more
Il est difficile de trouver son identité lorsqu'on est otages de deux cultures, de deux
mondes. Le fait que les jeunes immigrés, soient vus, sur leur propre sol natal, comme étant
des étrangers, sinon carrément des français, illustre clairement ce déchirement identitaire.
Pourtant, tel que illustré par les trois romanciers choisis, la double culture n’est pas forcément
un handicap ou un motif de rejet mais un facteur de richesse.
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Examines the theorization of displacement in the field of Exilforschung (exile studies) in Germany since 1945 using a historiographic approach that situates exile studies within Germany's wider political history. The promotion of... more
Examines the theorization of displacement in the field of Exilforschung (exile studies) in Germany since 1945 using a historiographic approach that situates exile studies within Germany's wider political history. The promotion of Exilforschung highlights the particular ways in which the two postwar Germanys dealt with the Nazi past. It was also a political act played out against the background of the Cold War in which both East and West Germany aimed to justify and bolster their existence. Rather than viewing the displacement of creative figures (and other elite intellectuals) as tales of passivity, the author describes the displacement as a contextual phenomenon that provided an opportunity for these figures to rebuild their lives outside Germany.
This description of Hungarian cabaret (and other music-related emigré activities) in London – both during and after the war – unpacks crucial aspects of the emigré experience: political readjustment within a new cultural framework;... more
This description of Hungarian cabaret (and other music-related emigré activities) in London – both during and after the war – unpacks crucial aspects of the emigré experience: political readjustment within a new cultural framework; definitions of ‘Self and Other’, and the tangible impact of a newly transplanted cultural community on the British art scene.
Begun on a train from Svendborg in Denmark to Prague in 1937 and developed until his forced departure from the United States in 1948, Hanns Eisler’s Reisesonate (Travel Sonata) is inextricably linked with the composer’s displacements.... more
Begun on a train from Svendborg in Denmark to Prague in 1937 and developed until his forced departure from the United States in 1948, Hanns Eisler’s Reisesonate (Travel Sonata) is inextricably linked with the composer’s displacements. This article positions the Reisesonate in several contexts—its material, performance, stylistic, and political histories—that challenge the directional simplicity of emigration as the move from home to exile, from nation to nationless-ness. We situate the sonata’s genesis against the background of Eisler’s travels and discuss strategies in Eisler scholarship vis-à-vis his places.
Mobility emerges in an analytical reading of the work that destabilizes static notions of musical modernism. Performance history and further documentary evidence, including the surveillance files of the British SecretSecurity Service, provide portraits of the composer on the move. We suggest that the Reisesonate provides musical counterpoint to Eisler’s biography, like a travel companion, and sheds light on the journeying that defined his life at mid-century.
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Deze tekst is een nawoord bij het boek 'Aanvallen' van Roland Bergeys, een novelle over zijn grootvader Ward, zowel soldaat als Belg in Engeland, in Elisabethville, Birtley om specifiek te zijn. Roland Bergeys, Aanvallen! Het verhaal van... more
Deze tekst is een nawoord bij het boek 'Aanvallen' van Roland Bergeys, een novelle over zijn grootvader Ward, zowel soldaat als Belg in Engeland, in Elisabethville, Birtley om specifiek te zijn.
Roland Bergeys, Aanvallen! Het verhaal van Ward van het 13e,de Vries-Brouwers, 2012, 238 p, 18.95 € – ISBN 978-90-5927-120-3.
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forthcoming in: Actas del XVII Congreso Internacional de AHILA (Berlin, 2014)
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L'article sélectionné pour la publication à l'issue de la participation à la session plénière de l’École Européenne d’Études Comparatistes Synapsis (Pontignano, Italie, 18-25 septembre 2006), et la participation au séminaire "The Exile's... more
L'article sélectionné pour la publication à l'issue de la participation à la session plénière de l’École Européenne d’Études Comparatistes Synapsis (Pontignano, Italie, 18-25 septembre 2006), et la participation au séminaire "The Exile's Return" présenté par Mme la Professeure Gillian Beer, Université de Cambridge.
L'article traduit du français par Fiametta Di Lorenzo.
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First President of independent Algeria, FLN leader
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For better or worse, immigration has defined North America since the start of European colonization in the early seventeenth century. At the outset of the twenty-first century, the discourses of immigration have radically changed from... more
For better or worse, immigration has defined North America since the start of European colonization in the early seventeenth century. At the outset of the twenty-first century, the discourses of immigration have radically changed from Emma Lazarus’s imagined call to “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Our course this semester will examine seven novels and four films that depict experiences of both voluntary and involuntary immigrants to the United States and Canada to see not only how the idealistic rhetoric of the past (e.g., the alluring notion of “American Dream”) has been tempered by more recent global politics, but also what common threads still run through the immigrant experience, regardless of national origin.
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Sapienza Università di Roma - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di studi greco-latini, italiani, scenico-musicali en collaboration avec CECILLE Laboratoire - Université de Lille 3 Journée internationale... more

Sapienza Università di Roma - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Dipartimento di studi greco-latini, italiani, scenico-musicali
 
en collaboration avec
CECILLE Laboratoire - Université de Lille 3

Journée internationale d'études 
Rome, le 24 octobre 2014  -  10 h. -17 h.
Direction du Dipartimento di studi greco-latini, italiani, scenico-musicali

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Exilio, escritura e identidad son conceptos clave que se entrelazan en este ensayo en el que se ahonda en el sentir del sujeto desterritorializado, frecuentemente por cuestiones políticas, y en el escenario del exilio, una experiencia que... more
Exilio, escritura e identidad son conceptos clave que se entrelazan en este ensayo en el que se ahonda en el sentir del sujeto desterritorializado, frecuentemente por cuestiones políticas, y en el escenario del exilio, una experiencia que ha marcado a fuego la historia reciente de América Latina y la de muchos de sus intelectuales y escritores. Tres de ellos (Reinaldo Arenas, Manuel Díaz Martínez y Fernando Aínsa) han forjado unas poéticas que, explícita o implícitamente, giran en torno a las nociones de desplazamiento, de exclusión, de nostalgia y de desarraigo. 
For 140 år siden flyktet en russisk fyrste Kropotkin til Bergen. Også I dag er russisk opposisjon og frie tenkere avhengig av grenseoverskridende samarbeid.
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Ponencia:  José Gaos y el Movimiento de Historia de las Ideas
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