Cultures of Exile

Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acutely expressed by, the fluidity of the visual image. The essays in this volume examine issues such as remembering and forgetting trauma and nostalgia, time and space, social and sexual exclusion in relation to visual media and new technologies, cinema and the visual arts. The multi-facetted and interdisciplinary exploration of exile and displacement - whether geographical, temporal, corporeal or performative - provides an important analysis of a significant and fascinating aspect of contemporary culture.

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Introduction
PART I: SPACE
Chapter 1. Exile and Displacement in the Cinema of Tony Gatlif: Les Princes (1983) and Gadjo dilo (1998)
Carrie Tarr
Chapter 2. Leaving Home: Exile and Displacement in Contemporary European Cinema
Wendy Everett
Chapter 3. The Exile of Remembering: Movement and Memory in Chris Marker's Sans Soleil
Catherine Lupton
PART II: TIME
Chapter 4. 'Island of Tears': Georges Perec, Ellis Island and the Exile's Lost Past
Peter Wagstaff
Chapter 5. Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: the Work of Arnold Daghani
Deborah Schultz
Chapter 6. Chantal Akerman: a Struggle with Exile
Lieve Spaas
Chapter 7. Memory and Exile in the Bill Douglas Trilogy
Christine Sprengler
PART III: BODY
Chapter 8. Exile and the Body
Gabriele Griffin
Chapter 9. The Transgendered Individual as Exilic Travelling Subject
Feroza Basu
Chapter 10. Andy Warhol and the Strategic Exile of the Self
Chris Horrocks
Chapter 11. Exiles of Normality: Photography and the Representation of Diseased Bodies
Richard Sawdon Smith
Notes on Contributors
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Index