Papayanis, Marilyn Adler. Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje.(Book review)

From: Studies in the Novel | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: Hibbard, Allen | Copyright information

PAPAYANIS, MARILYN ADLER. Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. 296 pp. $69.95 cloth; $34.95 paper.

The expatriate experience, often viewed with a great degree of naive romanticism, has long been a subject of interest, allure, fascination, and outright dismissal and scorn. In the wake of postcolonial theory, the representation of other cultures--in historical accounts, media stories, et...