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Article: Marina Tsvetaeva: the concrete and the metaphoric discourse of exile.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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In exile studies the distinction between emigres, whose departure is voluntary, and exiles, forcibly expelled from the homeland, tends to persist. Thus the mass exodus from Russia after the Revolution is generally referred to as emigration. (1) The rationale behind this distinction is partly practical: strict definitions limit the field of study. Partly it results from considerations of status: forcibly expelled, exiles, and particularly exiled writers, are believed to distinguish themselves through greater suffering. Simultaneously, however, there exists a palpable sense of unease in the face of too rigid a distinction. Thus Martin Tucker concedes in Literary Exile in the ...