Articles by Darko Suvin
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Displaced Persons
NLR 31, January-February 2005, pp. 107-123in
Subjects: Social Theory,
Has exile been overstated, by Edward Said and others, as a characteristic condition of the modern artist? Darko Suvin suggests a more fine-grained typology of displacement, distinguishing between exiles, émigrés, expatriates and refugees, and proposes the category of ‘border intellectuals’ as a better understanding of figures like Said himself. Reflections on the inner phenomenology of each condition, and the historical forces that have produced them.
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Auerbach’s Assistant
NLR 15, May-June 2002, pp. 157-164in
Subjects: Germany, Literature
Darko Suvin on Peter Jehle, Werner Krauss und die Romanistik im NS-Staat. Germany’s most radical Romance scholar, who wrote on Corneille while awaiting execution in Nazi Berlin, and his contribution to a secular understanding of literature.
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Centennial Politics: On Jameson on Brecht on Method
NLR I/234, March-April 1999, pp. 127-140in
Subjects: Aesthetics,
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