Exiles and migrants : crossing thresholds in European culture and society

Examines the ways in which literary texts act not just as a filter of experience of exile, but also as an aid to mediation in the associated problems of identity. This collection of essays traces the fundamental presuppositions of socio-cultural encounters arising from migration. Foreword / Eda Sagarra -- Demarcation And Assimilation: Socio-cultural Encounters In The Seventeenth To Nineteenth Centuries -- A Frank In The Ottoman Empire: The Case Of The Chevalier D'arvieux / Mary Hossain -- Voloumous Deamboulare: The Wandering Irish In French Literature, 1600-1789 / Eamon O Ciosain -- Between Exile And Assimilation: Languages And Identity In German-jewish Texts Around 1848 / Florian Krobb -- Europe's Homeless: A Century Of Exile -- Land Of The Fair, Land Of The Free? The Myth Of America In Irish Folklore / Grace Neville -- From George Moore To Brian Moore: Irish Writers Making A Fetish Of Exile / Barbara Freitag -- Enlightened Humanism Defeated: German Writers, Writings And Ideas In Exile, 1933-41 / Sophie Perriaux -- Klaus Mann's Novel The Volcano -- A Document Of German Emigration After 1933 / Hermann Rasche -- 'there Is No History Here': Marguerite Yourcenar's American Exile / Francesca Counihan -- Varieties Of Exile: Stefan Schutz's Novel Katt / Ian Wallace -- Europe And Its Other: The Colonial Legacy And Ethnicity -- Things Fall Apart: The Portrayal Of African Identity In Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson And Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease / Arnd Witte -- The Dialogue Of Exile: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'aventure Ambigue / Patricia Little -- Three Generations Of Francophone North African Writers In Exile: Driss Chraibi, Tahar Ben Jelloun And Mehdi Charef / Houssaine Afoullous -- Images Of Difference: The Portrayal Of Ethnic Minorities In German Cinema Since Fassbinder / Anthony Coulson. Edited By Anthony Coulson ; Foreword By Eda Sagarra. Papers Presented At A Conference Held Dublin City University, 1994. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.