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Exile in Guyville
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Exile in Guyville
Carries a strong pull into film through migration and after-hours.
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Amassakoul
Carries a strong pull into film through migration and after-hours.
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Dethroned thought: Mexican exile of Spanish literature
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and identity.
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Germinal
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and migration.
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Happy Together
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and migration.
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Speak, Memory
1950s
Nabokov's autobiography of exile, chess problems, butterflies, and the crystalline recovery of a lost St. Petersburg childhood.
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Il Postino
1990s
A postman befriends the exiled Pablo Neruda and learns the power of poetry.
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Dethroned thought: Mexican exile of Spanish literature
2010s
Dethroned thought: Mexican exile of Spanish literature is a 2016 essay or critical text by Salomé Guadalupe Ingelmo, linked to a wider international field and Spanish. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and edito...
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Germinal
1880s
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to...
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Music 1970s
Exile on Main St.
The Stones in a basement in the south of France. Rock and roll at its most gloriously unhinged.
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Film 1990s
Happy Together
Two people unable to leave each other, unable to stay. Exile and desire in Buenos Aires.
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Music 2000s
Amassakoul
Tuareg desert rock. Electric guitars in the Sahara, rebellion and exile encoded in rhythm and sand.
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Film 1980s
Nostalgia
A Russian poet travels through Italy. Exile, memory, and a candle carried across a drained pool.
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Music 1990s
Émile Wandelmer