Exilic Meditations: Essays on a Displaced Life - Softcover

Vahabzadeh, Peyman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780831854 ISBN 13: 9781780831855

Publisher: H&S Media, 2013

Synopsis

The six reflections and conceptualizations of Exilic Mediations explore the relationship between exile and emigration, the (im-)possibility of return, accent and foreignness, multiculturalism and sovereignty, trauma and memory, and a life lived poetically in an unhomely world. Situated subtly between reflections on personal experiences and post-Heideggerian philosophy, these exilic meditations show how a life lived as an exile enables a journey into the very concepts that we hold so dear to our hearts: home, belonging, justice, and the future. Vahabzadeh wishes to find a place where the singular experiences of the exiles and emigrants can be heard. This requires, he argues, a poetic life—one of creative responses to the very conditions of injustice, a life of making and crafting a new world. Exilic Meditations calls for attending to the common wounds of the banished and marginalized, displaced and abandoned, exiles and refugees, in these inhospitable times of ours.

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About the Author

Peyman Vahabzadeh is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria, Canada. He is the author of Articulated Experiences: Toward a Radical Phenomenology of Contemporary Social Movements (2003), A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Discourse of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 (2010), as well as six books of fiction, poetry, memoir, and literary criticism in Persian.

Edition details

• Publisher: H&S Media
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780831854
• ISBN 13: 9781780831855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170