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Books (to be bought or loaned) 

Camus, Albert, The Stranger (New York: Knopf, 1993). Selected chapters,

approximately 40 pages.

Daoud, Kamel, The Meursault Investigations (London: Oneworld Publications, 2015).

Selected passages, approximately 50 pages.

Sachs, Nelly & Celan, Paul, Correspondence (New York: Sheep Meadow Press,

1995).

Articles and Essays (available as pdfs on “Studiewebben”, the StudyWeb)

Aeschylos, The Suppliant Maidens (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Ahmed, Sara. “Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 2(3), 1999, pp.329-347.

Améry, Jean, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?”, in At the Mind’s Limits,

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Baudelaire, Charles, Paris Spleen, 1869 (New York: New Directions Publ., 1970).

Excerpts.

Benjamin, Walter. “Experience and Poverty”, in Selected Writings, Vol. 2. 1927-1940. (Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 731-736.

Celan, Paul, Breathturn into Timestead (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).

Selected passages.

Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions. Art and Spatial Politics. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996). (selected chapters, about 40 pages)

Foucault, Michael. “La Meninas” in The Order of Things. (New York: Vintage Books, 1994) pp. 3-16.

 

Holm, Nicholas & Duncan, Pansy. “Introduction: Cultural Studies, Marxism and the Exile of Aesthetics.” In: Open Cultural Studies, 2018, pp. 746–757.

Kristeva, Julia, “The Greeks Among Barbarians, Suppliants and Metics”, in Strangers

to Ourselves (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).

 

Nancy, Jean-Luc, “Exiled Existence”.

Olsson, Anders. “Aching Through: Nelly Sachs’s Poetry of Exile”. Languages of Exile: Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature (Bern: Peter Lang, 1994).

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences” in: Art and Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (eds. Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger, Blackwell Publishing, 2012), pp. 432-440.

Sachs, Nelly. O the chimneys: selected poems, including the verse play, Eli (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967). Excerpts.

Said, Edward, “Reflections on Exile”, in Reflections on Exile: and other literary and cultural essays (London: Granta, 2001).

Seits, Irina. “Mickey Mouse – the Perfect Tenant of an Early Soviet City.” In: Baltic Worlds (10)3, 2017. pp. 53-62.

Trebitsch, Michel. “Preface.” In: Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of Everyday Life. (London-New York, 1991), pp. ix-xxviii.