In her article "Space in Cardinal's Au Pays de mes racines and Goytisolo's Coto vedado" Laura Dennis discusses the ways in which two memoirs of the late twentieth century treat exile and diverse spaces as part of a quest for a place in which to live fully and freely. Juan Goytisolo's Coto vedado and Marie Cardinal's Au Pays de mes racines constitute particularly rich treatments of space and exi...

The relation of self and other is at the thematic heart of two of David Malouf's novels: An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon. Characters demarcate the terms of this relation through their experiences: they endure alienation, suffer exile, or find themselves estranged from a linguistic community; they discover a sense of centredness, return to a home, or are absorbed into a common speech a...

This article focusses on Al-Nur, a community centre in Istanbul, Turkey, that caters to Syrian and Palestinian refugees. It is based five months of fieldwork conducted the winter spring 2017 Turkey included participant observation as volunteer English teacher at Al-Nur. A focus philosophy guides Al-Nur’s functioning well stories displacement some its managers volunteers sheds light importance b...