-
Title
-
Behind the lines
-
Excerpt
-
This article covers the two-day "crammed and curious" conference called The Politics of Exile, organized by the Third World Foundation and South magazine at the Institute for Contemporary Arts. "The real politicians had stayed away, offering a wide variety of excuses: they didn't feel like entering this kind of forum, it was too potentially compromising, they'd have to have the authority of a central committee... Instead, it was the writers and intellectuals who jostled for space in the programme to talk about the Latin American, African, Middle-Eastern, and South Asian experiences. So the politics were filtered through very self-conscious lenses." Of African poets, Sage writes, "As someone else pointed out, exiles must always be distiguished from refugees, they don't have the collective innocence of victims... Educated and articulate exiles, said the banished South African poet Dennis Brutus (famed as the inspirer of the sporting boycott), form a new wandering tribe -- the Bintu. They've been to conferences on the nature of exile just about everywhere, even Oklahoma."
-
Bibliographic Citation
-
"Behind the lines (1987-05-15)", The Times Literary Supplement, 1987-05-15, p. 516.
Accessed . https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200452309/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=3ae7763f.
-
News Item Type
-
News Report
-
Creator
-
Sage, Lorna
-
Date
-
1987-05-15
-
Identifier
-
apdp.news.000157
-
People referenced
-
Graham-Yooll, Andrew
-
Fassih, Esmail
-
Lim, Shirley
-
Al-Unhari, Abdullah
-
Palijo, Rasul Bakhsh
-
Bastos, Augusto Roa
-
Farah, Nuruddin
-
Farhi, Musa Moris
-
Sage, Lorna
-
Ngcobo, Lauretta
-
Emecheta, Buchi
-
Brutus, Dennis Vincent
