الفهرس 
Exilic Writers Crossing BordersOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The dichotomy of home and exile is one of the intricate dichotomies in a world of continuous migration and forced displacement. The new concept of exile is accentuated not as embodying deprivation and loss but as becoming the new home of prominent writers and intellectuals who are capable of surmounting its hazards in order to enjoy its pleasures. Therefore calls for rethinking and revising exile as a contrapuntal experience emerge offering a new body of criticism accentuating the positivity of exile. The proposed pleasures of exile are obtained from the testimonies of distinguished exilic writers thus theorizing for exile and its doubleness. The suggested pleasures mainly include: the pleasures of recollecting home in exile, the pleasures of writing back from exile, and the pleasures of reading the self and the other in exile. It is intriguing to notice how pleasures emerge from threats and how one pleasure develop from the other. The two African writers, Ben Okri and Al-Tayeb Saleh, actively contribute to that varying understanding of exile through their personal viewpoints and through their fictional works. Both writers’ openness, flexibility together with high degrees of tolerance accelerated their assimilation and thus enjoyment of the pleasures of exile.
The pleasures of recollecting home in exile are crystalized in the two writers’ vivid portrayal of the African village that surpasses mere representations of a home they long for to a home they defend against a colonial system of reduction. The pleasures of writing back are thus developed to refute colonial patterns unjustly representing the African personality and clarifying the limitations of the colonial system of thought. It is essential therefore to offer a clear reading of the self and the other in order to achieve reconciliation; if it is achievable. By deeply and continuously rethinking these pleasures, exile proves to a rewarding experience with the possibility of coexistence and fulfillment.