Writing Outside the Nation

by Azade Seyhan

Book Overview

Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman) and Germany (Libuse Mon?kov?, Rafik Schami, and E. S. ?zdamar, among others), developing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691050996
• ISBN13: 9780691050997
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"