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Living Anonymity: Exile as Motif in Lenrie Peters’ He Walks Alone

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the achievements of exile permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind for ever. (Edward Said, 2001:137)

Source: International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature

DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.2p.204

Authors: Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi, Niyi Akingbe, Adebola Abosede Otemuyiwa

Institution: Joseph Ayo Babalola University

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2064965405

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