On Belonging and Not Belonging

Translation, Migration, Displacement

Mary Jacobus

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Princeton University Press
01 September 2022

Translation & interpretation; Literature: history & criticism; Migration, immigration & emigration

On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range of artistic works. From the possibilities and limitations of translation addressed by Jhumpa Lahiri and David Malouf to the effects of shifting borders in the writings of Eugenio Montale, W. G. Sebald, Colm Tibn, and many others, esteemed literary critic Mary Jacobus looks at the ways novelists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers revise narratives of language, identity, and exile. Jacobus's attentive readings of texts and images seek to answer the question: What does it mean to identify as-or with-an outsider?

Walls and border-crossings, nomadic wanderings and Alpine walking, the urge to travel and the yearning for home-Jacobus braids together such threads in disparate times and geographies. She plumbs the experiences of Ovid in exile, Frankenstein's outcast Being, Elizabeth Bishop in Nova Scotia and Brazil, Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood, and Sophocles's Antigone in the wilderness. Throughout, Jacobus trains her eye on issues of transformation and translocation; the traumas of partings, journeys, and returns; and confrontations with memory and the past.

Focusing on human conditions both modern and timeless, On Belonging and Not Belonging offers a unique consideration of inclusion and exclusion in our world.

By: Mary Jacobus
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691212388
ISBN 10: 0691212384
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Jacobus is the Grace II Professor Emerita of English at the University of Cambridge and professor emerita of English at Cornell University. Her many books include Reading Cy Twombly (Princeton) and Romantic Things.

Reviews for On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement

"""[On Belonging and Not Belonging] explore[s] displacement’s hidden dimensions in formulations often subtle and surprising.""---Katie Trumpener, Critical Inquiry ""On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a unique contribution to the literature on migrant experiences that will be of interest to researchers in philosophy and art, particularly those with interests in identity and place."" * Choice *"