Writing and Romantic Exile

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Abbasi, Hasti
Green, Stephanie
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2017
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This paper will investigate creative dislocation and the idea of the writer as exiled self
through reflections on the traction and slippages between ideas of place, dislocation
and writing. For a writer, producing creative work through the experience of
dislocation, whether voluntary or enforced, can be isolating and difficult, but it can
also bring new perspectives and opportunities for creative capacity and expression.
The creative resonances of writing in exile will be explored here with reference to
David Malouf’s celebrated novella An Imaginary Life (1978) in which he depicts
exile as a necessary journey of becoming, a ...
View more >This paper will investigate creative dislocation and the idea of the writer as exiled self through reflections on the traction and slippages between ideas of place, dislocation and writing. For a writer, producing creative work through the experience of dislocation, whether voluntary or enforced, can be isolating and difficult, but it can also bring new perspectives and opportunities for creative capacity and expression. The creative resonances of writing in exile will be explored here with reference to David Malouf’s celebrated novella An Imaginary Life (1978) in which he depicts exile as a necessary journey of becoming, a ‘dynamic marginality’ as Braidotti observes (2002: 129), which offers creative possibility rather than closure and loss. For the writer Ovid, dislocation is phenomenological prerequisite for selftransformation. His discovery is that the writer must always be at the edge of things, noticing differently, available to possibility, able to embody and to channel being as metamorphoses through creative expression.
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View more >This paper will investigate creative dislocation and the idea of the writer as exiled self through reflections on the traction and slippages between ideas of place, dislocation and writing. For a writer, producing creative work through the experience of dislocation, whether voluntary or enforced, can be isolating and difficult, but it can also bring new perspectives and opportunities for creative capacity and expression. The creative resonances of writing in exile will be explored here with reference to David Malouf’s celebrated novella An Imaginary Life (1978) in which he depicts exile as a necessary journey of becoming, a ‘dynamic marginality’ as Braidotti observes (2002: 129), which offers creative possibility rather than closure and loss. For the writer Ovid, dislocation is phenomenological prerequisite for selftransformation. His discovery is that the writer must always be at the edge of things, noticing differently, available to possibility, able to embody and to channel being as metamorphoses through creative expression.
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Special Issue 41
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Subject
Creative and professional writing
Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)