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    Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2009 Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel and the Dilemma of Exile David S. Morgan University of Tennessee - Knoxville Recommended Citation Morgan‚ David S.‚ "Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel and the Dilemma of Exile. " PhD diss.‚ University of Tennessee‚ 2009. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/624 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School

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    There is no doubt that upon reading Albert’s Camus’ Exile and the Kingdom1‚ there are many elements that‚ together‚ contribute to the overall effect of its presentation. Whether these components are literary or personal insights‚ what is definite is that the Nobel Prize winner strives for introducing and refining the theme of mental exile. Having been a pied-noir – of European descent born in Algeria – Camus effectively portrays some of his experiences through one of his fictional protagonists‚ Daru

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    the Bay of Pigs failure. One of these mistakes was the belief that Cuban nationals shared the animosity of Fidel Castro that Cuban exiles did. If the Central Intelligence Agentcy had chose to look at all sides of the Cuban argument instead of only see the opinions of the Miami Cuban exiles then the design of the invasion strike would have been changed. The Cuban exiles were angry with Fidel Castro and the downfall of President Bastia and wanted democracy. However‚ the Cuban population living in Cuba

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    other for control of Animal Farm. For a while in the book it is evident that the animals prefer Snowball’s leadership over Napoleon’s until while in mid debate Napoleon has vicious dogs‚who he raised‚chase Snowball off the farm and force him into exile. Napoleon’s reasoning for this is that Snowball was a traitor and was working alongside the humans who oppressed the animals. Snowball’s character is brought up

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    DIFFERENCES SHOULD Similar to the idea of religion as a manifestation of exile in various stanzas within ‘The TV’‚ Crichton Smith’s poem ‘That Ethnic Differences Should’ highlights the poets personal feelings about religion as a whole and the extremity at which those go to in order to stay faithful to their God. Crichton Smith talks about his belief that God is the enemy‚ in which He promotes and encourages the most extensive variation of exile where people distance themselves from other cultures‚ ethnicities

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    One especially lonely day for Saul‚ a new exile is brought on a rocket to Mars. The newcomer‚ Leonard Mark‚ shares his special telepathic abilities to conjure up lifelike images and experiences. This opens up endless possibilities to Saul‚ like asking Leonard if he can go swimming in a creek he knew as a child or travel the world and visit with old scholars like Plato and Aristotle. At first‚ Leonard Mark ’s arrival may seem to be good for the bored exiles‚ but actually turns out to be bad. Mark ’s

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    Notes on Jonathan Swift’s utopian and dystopian worlds Constantin Manea Maria-Camelia Manea University of Piteşti Abstract: The present paper‟s aim is to substantiate the features of novelty that Swift generated in English and (indirectly) in world literature‚ with regard to the use of utopian and dystopian elements within the broader scope of satire. Jonathan Swift‟s satirical prose‚ which was meant to ridicule human vices and flaws‚ as well as a number of highly topical issues‚ considered with

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    created first modern totalitarian system under Terror. Constitution was suspended indefinitely‚ and state implemented widespread judicial murders of its critics and the opponents. Intellectual potential of the state was decimated at the guillotine or by exile. One point‚ almost entire French academy was tried for treason in May/June 1794. Revolution was negatively taken by rest of Europe‚ which was dragged for 25 years into coalition wars with France. Total collapse of the economy‚ finances‚ and capital

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    Political Exiles: Give me Liberty For the past few weeks‚ in Non-Western Art class‚ we have discussed later Japanese artworks and how it relates to the theme of social justice. Out of the many featured artworks we have covered‚ An Exiled Emperor on Okinoshima intrigued to me the most and thus motivated me to do an extensive research on it. The person who was exiled on Okinoshima Island was identified as Emperor Go-Daigo‚ the 96th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession

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    Voltaire was the most advocate of all the other Enlightenment thinkers. He had a brief career as a spy for the French government. Voltaire said that “Man is free at the moment he wishes to be”. His ideas influenced many people and the freedoms that people wanted than being treated as a normal person. He believed that every man has the freedom of speech‚ and religion. Voltaire also published more than 70 books of political‚ philosophy‚ and history. He even helped Isaac Newton’s ideas better and more

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