The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period

This paper deals with exile in the 20th century and makes some suggestions for a reconsideration of this experience. The reasons for its peculiarity lie in a series of political, religious, racial and moral elements but when we speak of exile we are implicitly referring to substantially different ex...

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Autor principal:	Renato Camurri
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Publicado:	Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2014
Materias:	Political and intellectual exile European cultural migration exile studies comparative perspective Italian case History America E-F America E11-143
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:dd92fca12de5489fa4d15430e9d76c3d2021-12-02T10:15:24ZThe Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period1765-276610.4000/transatlantica.6920https://doaj.org/article/dd92fca12de5489fa4d15430e9d76c3d2014-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6920https://doaj.org/toc/1765-2766This paper deals with exile in the 20th century and makes some suggestions for a reconsideration of this experience. The reasons for its peculiarity lie in a series of political, religious, racial and moral elements but when we speak of exile we are implicitly referring to substantially different experiences and phenomena: social exile, political exile and intellectual exile.The historiography of cultural migration has been through new and important developments over the past twenty years, developments that have enlarged the field across the borders of where sector-based studies grew. The first phase of studies into intellectual exile was strongly conditioned by two classic interpretative paradigms: the acculturation paradigm and the paradigm of the impact refugee scholars had on American culture. However, the field of so called “Exile Studies” has widened remarkably in recent years extending to philosophy, literature, sociology and anthropology. This has provoked a series of negative effects, such as an excessive generalization of the concept of exile and the loss of the historical specificity of this phenomenon.The author analyzes some features of the experience of Italian exiles in the United States starting from a comparative approach. His aim is to highlight major differences between various national cases (German, French and Italian). He concludes that the meaning of exile in the 20th century essentially indicates an experience of fracture, of displacement from the motherland, of alienation lived as a loss, of injury.Renato CamurriAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesarticlePolitical and intellectual exileEuropean cultural migrationexile studiescomparative perspectiveItalian caseHistory AmericaE-FAmericaE11-143ENFRTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines, Vol 1 (2014)
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description	This paper deals with exile in the 20th century and makes some suggestions for a reconsideration of this experience. The reasons for its peculiarity lie in a series of political, religious, racial and moral elements but when we speak of exile we are implicitly referring to substantially different experiences and phenomena: social exile, political exile and intellectual exile.The historiography of cultural migration has been through new and important developments over the past twenty years, developments that have enlarged the field across the borders of where sector-based studies grew. The first phase of studies into intellectual exile was strongly conditioned by two classic interpretative paradigms: the acculturation paradigm and the paradigm of the impact refugee scholars had on American culture. However, the field of so called “Exile Studies” has widened remarkably in recent years extending to philosophy, literature, sociology and anthropology. This has provoked a series of negative effects, such as an excessive generalization of the concept of exile and the loss of the historical specificity of this phenomenon.The author analyzes some features of the experience of Italian exiles in the United States starting from a comparative approach. His aim is to highlight major differences between various national cases (German, French and Italian). He concludes that the meaning of exile in the 20th century essentially indicates an experience of fracture, of displacement from the motherland, of alienation lived as a loss, of injury.
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title	The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period
title_short	The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period
title_full	The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period
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The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period

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