Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures

by Sophia A. McClennen

The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language and Space in Hispanic Literatures offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557533156
• ISBN13: 9781557533159
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"