Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home

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Autor(a) principal: Harwood,Rebecca
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0874-55602011000200010
Resumo: Benson spent most of her adult life abroad and in this paper I propose to use the textual material of her travel books, The Little World (1925) and Worlds Within Worlds (1928), collections of the sketches she wrote during her time in America, Hong Kong and China, to focus on Benson’s personal politics of location in exile. These two books very clearly demonstrate Trinh Minh-ha’s concept of identity as a «product of articulation», where «[Identity] lies at the intersection of dwelling and travelling» (Trinh Minh-ha, 1994: 14). Benson’s travel sketches exemplify an enabling concept of travel and exile, where ‘homelessness’ is a state or space that embodies creative and utopian potentiality.
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title Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
spellingShingle Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
Harwood,Rebecca
travel
ex-centric
exile
home
homelessness
title_short Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
title_full Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
title_fullStr Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
title_full_unstemmed Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
title_sort Worlds Within Worlds: Stella Benson’s ex-centric search for home
author Harwood,Rebecca
author_facet Harwood,Rebecca
author_role author
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv travel
ex-centric
exile
home
homelessness
topic travel
ex-centric
exile
home
homelessness
description Benson spent most of her adult life abroad and in this paper I propose to use the textual material of her travel books, The Little World (1925) and Worlds Within Worlds (1928), collections of the sketches she wrote during her time in America, Hong Kong and China, to focus on Benson’s personal politics of location in exile. These two books very clearly demonstrate Trinh Minh-ha’s concept of identity as a «product of articulation», where «[Identity] lies at the intersection of dwelling and travelling» (Trinh Minh-ha, 1994: 14). Benson’s travel sketches exemplify an enabling concept of travel and exile, where ‘homelessness’ is a state or space that embodies creative and utopian potentiality.
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