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This Book Examines The Life And Art Of Those Contemporary Artists Who By Force Or By Choice Find Themselves On Other Shores. It Argues That The Exilic Challenge Enables The émigré Artist To (re)establish New Artistic Devices, New Laws And A New Language Of Communication In Both His Everyday Life And His Artistic Work. Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On Theater And Exile: Toward A Definition Of Exilic Theater As Performing Odyssey; 1 Heteroglossia Of A Castaway: On The Exilic Performative Of Joseph Brodsky's Poetry And Prose; 2 Beyond The Postcolonial Dasein: On Derek Walcott's Narratives Of History And Exile; 3 Performing Exilic Communitas: On Eugenio Barba's Theater Of A Floating Island; 4 The Homebody/kanjiža: On Josef Nadj's Exilic Theater Of Autobiography And Travelogue 5 To The Poetics Of Exilic Adolescence: On Wajdi Mouawad's Theater Of Secondary Witness And Poetic Testimony6 Framing The Ancestry: Performing Postmemory In Atom Egoyan's Post-exilic Cinema; Conclusion: On The Lessons Of Exilic Theater, Performing Exile, Performing Self; Notes; Bibliography; Index By Y. Meerzon. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English