7/1/2023 0 Comments Voyage in the dark![]() ![]() All these text share a formal structure, centered on the physical and mental journeys of the protagonists, as exiles or as migrants, within urban spaces which are physical and/or symbolic centers of empires or power (London, Paris, New York, Alexandria of Egypt). ![]() The course “Migration and Exile: Journey in Imperial Space” focused on the literary forms and works that were developed by authors of the Caribbean diaspora (Jean Rhys and Sam Selvon): these texts are responses to their encounters with the spaces of the capital of the British Empire, and epistemological tools for mapping and understanding the economic, social and political significance of those spaces, as well as the personal experiences of estrangement, disorientation and surprise. Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Quartet (1928) and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) were read in dialogue with a contemporary novel – Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) – and with André Aciman’s memoirs False Papers (2000). ![]()
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