Early modernist exile retained tragic intentionality that postmodern exile lacks

Evidence

There is still, in the young Joyce, a sense of ‘home and friends’, and even an accompanying sense of desolation in having to choose self-exile; there is also an intentionality, a choice, however tragic, as well as a full-blooded irony about one’s own undertaking and about the kind of rhetoric which frequently accompanies such undertakings; remarkable in all this is the pun on the word ‘forge’; nor is there any sense that the writer has ‘floated upwards from history, from memory, from Time’. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 234

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the modernist/postmodernist distinction on exile that the chapter builds across Rushdie and Joyce; also relates to Said’s work on exile as intellectual condition. — connects to: Exile mutilates the intellectual even when it spares direct coordination — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 29; Modernist artists deliberately abandoned the heroic image of humanity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 849; Institutional disintegration resulted partly from the scattering of exiled scholars — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1029 (+2 more)

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