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SPE 2007 - Symposium Topics
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“Without Exile, Who Am I?”
A Thesis for the “Struga Poetry Evenings” Symposium, 2007
- Exile as an existential performative and a fundamental human situation; exile as a theological/political/historical given and exile as an ontological/individual/creative figure
- Exile as a unique permanent signature of identity, as a condito sine qua non, as a ultimate existentialist and poetological determinant as discrepancy between “roots” (the fixed) and “heritage” (the movable)
- Home, belonging, native rootedness, versus the loss of homeland, exile, migration, multiplication of homelands as a literary topoi and metaphors. Poetic nomads.
- Exile as a displacement of the home-place (between homelessness and a multiplicity of homes) and an ontology of placelessness (“here, in this not-here and this not-there, I am free”—Mahmud Darwish)
- Ex-territoriality and polytropicality—beyond the principle of the earth-bounded identity
- Diasporic identities, literatures and cultures—Macedonia and Palestine—voices of exile
- The poetological meaning of exile in literature: the incorporation of exile in the individual poetics of the author
- Does exile contain its own rhetoric and preferred genre?
- “To be a migrant—in motion, in translation, in otherness—is a condition of poetics, ethics, and politics.” (Armando Nishi)
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