Letters of transit : reflections on exile, identity, language, and loss /
"Andre Aciman traces his migration from his home in Egypt to Italy, France, and the United States and compares his own transience with the unrootedness of many moderns. Eva Hoffman examines the crucial role of language and what happens when your first is lost. Returning to the political themes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : New Press ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1999], ©1999. |
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| Summary: | "Andre Aciman traces his migration from his home in Egypt to Italy, France, and the United States and compares his own transience with the unrootedness of many moderns. Eva Hoffman examines the crucial role of language and what happens when your first is lost. Returning to the political themes of his earlier work, Edward Said offers a personal exploration of his conflicting allegiances. Novelist Bharati Mukherjee analyzes her own struggle with assimilation. Finally, Charles Simic remembers the comedy of bureaucracy he experienced as a sixteen-year-old "displaced person" in Paris after the war, and his thwarted attempts at "fitting in" in America."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | "Published in collaboration with The New York Public Library." "... essays originally delivered in The New York Public Library's lecture series 'Letters of Transit'"--P. [9] |
| Physical Description: | 135 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1565845048 |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |