Articles by Darko Suvin

• Displaced Persons
  • Darko Suvin,

  in NLR 31, January-February 2005, pp. 107-123
  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
  • Darko Suvin,

  in NLR 15, May-June 2002, pp. 157-164
  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
  • Darko Suvin,

  in NLR I/234, March-April 1999, pp. 127-140
  Subjects: Aesthetics,
  

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