Migration and Exile: Charting New Literary and Artistic Territories

The essays gathered in this volume represent a breakthrough insofar as by questioning the boundaries between North-American and South-American studies, they call into question the validity of such a rigid separation. The interdisciplinary character of the articles thus allows for a more comprehensive perception of the cultural interactions between Europe, North America and South America. It is also more apt to convey a more nuanced image of the ways in which different cultures, literatures and languages intersect in representing the complex issues of exile and migration. The contributions to this trilingual volume raise questions pertaining to the central components of the exiled artists' creation: nation, memory, space and language. To what extent can the artists' partial and plural perspective (Rushdie) re-conceptualize notions of home and nationhood, challenge rigid assumptions of authenticity? How are notions of home and mother tongue affected by the crossing of geopolitical borders (inter-American, trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific)? While this collection of articles offers no definitive answers to these complex questions, it opens unexplored pathways by addressing less well known literary works and, most importantly, it charts new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.