Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she was the invited Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. She has been an invited Fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest and at the Center for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, as well as the Texas A&M Institute for Advanced Study. She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and several NEH Fellowships. Suleiman has won many honors, including a decoration by the French Government as Officer of the Order of Academic Palms (Palmes Académiques). Her book reviews and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The American Scholar, Moment Magazine and other newspapers and magazines. In addition to her scholarly work, Suleiman is the author of Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook, a memoir about Hungary. She has edited and co-edited influential collective volumes, including French Global: A New Approach to Literary History and Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances. Her other books include Crises of Memory and the Second World War Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde, and Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature. Her latest book, The Némirovsky Question, to be published by Yale University Press in fall 2016, is about the Russian-French novelist Irène Némirovsky and issues of “foreignness” in 20th-century France. Suleiman is the author or editor of numerous books and more than 100 articles on contemporary literature and culture, published in the U.S. She retired from full-time teaching in 2015. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature. from Harvard University, and has been on the Harvard faculty since 1981, where she is currently the C. She was born in Budapest and emigrated to the U.S. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature Zygmunt Bauman, Janet Bergstrom, Christine Brooke-Rose, Hélène Cixous, Tibor Dessewffy, Marianne Hirsch, Denis Hollier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Linda Nochlin, Leo Spitzer, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Thomas Pavel, Doris Sommer, Nancy Huston, John Neubauer, Ernst van Alphen, Alicia Borinsky, Svetlana Boym, Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron Exile and Creativity will engage a range of readers from those whose specific interests include the problems of displacement and diaspora and the European Holocaust to those whose broad interests include art, literary and cultural studies, history, film, and the nature of human creativity. With the exception of the contribution by Henry Louis Gates Jr., these essays were originally published in a special double issue of Poetics Today in 1996. Strikingly, many of the essays are themselves the work of exiles, bearing out once more the power of the personal voice in scholarship. Recognizing exile as an interior experience as much as a physical displacement, this collection discusses such varied topics as intellectual exile and seventeenth-century French literature different versions of home and of the novel in the writings of Bakhtin and Lukács the displacement of James Joyce and Clarice Lispector a young journalist’s meeting with James Baldwin in the south of France Jean Renoir’s Hollywood years and reflections by the descendents of European emigrés. In essays that range chronologically from the Renaissance to the 1990s, geographically from the Danube to the Andes, and historically from the Inquisition to the Holocaust, the complexities and tensions of exile and the diversity of its experiences are examined. Exile and Creativity brings together the widely varied perspectives of nineteen distinguished European and American scholars and cultural critics to Is exile a falling away from a source of creativity associated with the wholeness of home and one’s own language, or is it a spur to creativity? Whether emigrés, exiles, expatriates, refugees, or nomads, these people all experience a distance from their homes and often their native languages. A major historical phenomenon of our century, exile has been a focal point for reflections about individual and cultural identity and problems of nationalism, racism, and war.
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