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This collection of essays brings together leading experts in the study of exile and expatriation, whose historical and comparative perspectives enable readers to understand the phenomenon of forced displacement in the Americas.
… Political exile, a major political practice throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is still an under-researched topic. While ubiquitous and fascinating, with some notable and important exceptions, until recently it has been conceived as somewhat marginal for the development of these societies, instead being studied in the framework of traditional concepts and concerns in history and the social sciences. Following recent developments that highlight the centrality of diasporas and transnational studies, of transience and relocation, this book proposes that the study of exile should become a topic of central concern, closely related to basic theoretical problems and controversies on the structure of power, national representation and transnational displacement.
… The editors and contributors approach these issues through a nuanced reading of context and history. The work discusses the formative impact of exile in many of these societies at different times, while analyzing how it evolved and changed its character throughout the centuries. The systematic studies brought together in this volume will likely generate new readings of history and the societies in the Americas and the Diasporas, moving away from the traditional understanding of national histories towards more regional, transnational and even continental dimensions.
SUSSEX LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
CHAIR: CARLOS WAISMAN
University of California, San Diego
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Introduction,
Exile and the Politics of Exclusion in the Americas – the editors
Part
I The Politics of Exclusion in the Americas: Historical and
Comparative Perspectives
1. Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger: Political
Exile in Latin America
2. Teresa Meade and Gregory Pirio: African
Americans in Search of the Brazilian "Eldorado”
3. Silvina Jensen: Representations of Exile
and those Exiled in Argentine History
4. Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz: The Spanish
Exiles in Mexico and Beyond: A Comparative
Perspective
5. Allen Wells: Playing God: Choosing Central
European Jewish Refugees for the Dominican
Republic during World War II
6. Ricardo Melgar Bao: Exile in the Andean
Landscapes: A Historical Perspective
Part II The Cold War and Waves of Exile
7. Diana Anhalt: Fleeing from MacCarthism:
US Expatriates in Mexico
8. Félix Masud-Piloto: Cuban Exiles, the
Cold War and the Politics of Immigration
9. Thomas Wright and Rody Oñate: Chilean
Political Exile
10. James N. Green: Brazilian Exiles in the
United States, the Campaign against Torture, and the Forging
of a Human Rights Discourse for Latin America
11. Marina Franco: Exile as Rupture, Transformation
and Learning Process: Argentineans in France and the Humanitarian
Plight
12. Pablo Yankelevich: Exiles and the Argentinean
Diaspora. Issues and Problems
Part III Exile and the Reconstruction of Politics and Identities
13. Barry Carr: ‘Across Seas and Borders’:
Charting the Webs of Radical Internationalism in the Circum-Caribbean
14. Denise Rollemberg: The Brazilian Exile
Experience: Remaking Identities
15. Vania Markarian: Uruguayan Exiles and
Human Rights: From Transnational Activism to
Transitional Politics
16. Florinda Goldberg: “Only the Fog is Real”:
Migration and Exile in Latin-American
Literature
17. Sandra Lorenzano: Exile and Argentine
Literature: Testimonies of Memory
18. Luis Roniger: Exile and Democracy
Conclusions
Exile and the Setting of Future Research Agendas – The Editors
Index
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| “Exile has had a profound impact
on political ideologies. Distance from the country of origin,
the inevitable weakening of social ties that accompany emigration,
and the passage of time lead to a re-evaluation of the institutions
and culture left behind, and of the political practices in which
exiles had engaged in the past. Interaction with the host society,
even if limited by the desire to limit new attachments, is also
consequential. Paradoxically, a weak insertion in the new social
environment is conducive to the development of comprehensive
and nuanced appraisals of its institutions and culture. The
joint effect of these new visions may pull exiles in different
directions: toward extremism or the political center, toward
totalitarianism or democracy. This volume will contribute to
the understanding of how transnational political and cultural
processes, a key one of which is precisely the experience of
exile, interact with national processes in determining the direction
of institutional change.” From the Series Editor’s Preface
by Carlos Waisman |
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978-1-84519-503-8 |
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392 pp. / 246 x 171 mm |
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April 2012 |
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£65.00 / $84.95 |
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