چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper reconsiders the representation of exile in the memoirs of the American modernist Malcolm Cowley and
modern Palestinian writer Fawaz Turki, arguing that against the privileged use of exile by Cowley, Turki represents
exileas a catastrophic condition. In so doing, my paper asserts the necessity of accounting for the catastrophicaspect of
exile as represented in the modern Palestinian canon for a wider understanding of the notion of exile in the modern
discourse. I argue that the modern Palestinian experience of exile as delineated in Turki’s Exile’s Return has tragic,
historicaland political specificities that disrupt the view of exileas a desired position in the modernist American canon,
which Cowley’s Exile’s Return capitalises on. However, this juxtaposition does not look forward to negating or
dismissing American modernists’ glorification of exile as a space offering possibilities for freedom, resistance and
creativity. Instead, I aim by this juxtaposition to reuse the concept of exile in ways that do not gloss over the differences
between various exilic conditions.