Helen Solterer is Professor of French and Francophone & Romance Studies at Duke University Vincent Joos is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global French Studies at Florida State University
'Highly imaginative in conception and design, this book oscillates between medieval and modern to consider the migrant, the border-breaker, the refugee (lacking the romantic, time-honoured status of the exile ). Decentring anglocentric approaches, its contributors consider how written and visual arts might variously offer, for those lacking homelands, some place to live.' David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania -- .