Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement. By Wendy Everett and Peter Wagstaff.
2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jrs/fem023
ISSN1471-6925
Autores Tópico(s)Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
ResumoThis book is about the ‘cultural expression’ of exile, in European film-making, photography, writing and the visual arts. The editors begin by explaining (with suitable acknowledgement to the inspiration of Edward Said) that the purpose of their book is to ‘explore and develop the simple proposition that the experience of exile constitutes the major defining experience of the modern world’ (p. ix). The chapters are arranged in three parts, ‘Space’, ‘Time’ and ‘Body’. In Part I, Carrie Tarr examines ‘shifts in the construction of place and identity’ in two films by the Algerian-Gypsy filmmaker Tony Gatliff, Les Princes (1983) and Gadjo dilo (1998). Wendy Everett explores the ‘iconography of the road movie’ through a close analysis of Cold Fever (1994), Fredrik Thor Fridriksson's film about a journey made across Iceland, in mid-winter, by a Japanese businessman. Catherine Lupton's chapter is another close analysis of a single film—Chris Marker's Sans Soleil (1982), a film which most viewers apparently find it difficult or impossible to grasp, because of its ‘prevailing impression of mobility, of the lack of a stable resting place’ (37).
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