The Heart of a Stranger by Naffis-Sahely, André -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Origins and Myths

Naguib Mahfouz, The Return of Sinuhe The Torah, Exodus 23:9 The Book of Psalms, Psalm 137 Homer, from The Odyssey Sappho, Fragment 98B Xenophanes, Fragment 22 Seneca the Younger, from Moral Letters to Lucilius Plutarch, from The Life of Cleomenes

Dark Ages and Renaissances

The Desert Fathers, Abba Longinus Abd al-Rahman I, The Palm Tree Du Fu, from Dreaming of Li Bai Bai Juyi, Song of the Lute Christopher of Mytilene, On the ex-emperor Michael Kalaphates Ibn Hamdis, Oh sea, you conceal my paradise Moses ibn Ezra, I am weary of roaming about the world Anna Komnene, from The Alexiad Attar, from The Conference of the Birds Dante, Cacciaguida’s Prophecy John Barbour, from The Bruce of Bannockburn Michael Marullus, De exilio suo

Expulsions, Explorations and Migrations

William Shakespeare, from Coriolanus Andrias MacMarcuis, The Flight of the Earls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin, from The Wonders of Vilayet Phillis Wheatley, A Farewell to America Francis Baily, The First Discoverer of Kentucky Mary Shelley, Voltaire Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus Robert W. Service, The Spell of the Yukon Sol Plaatje, from Native Life in South Africa Mary Antin, from They Who Knock at Our Gates A.C. Jacobs, Immigration Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, A Colonial Affair! Sargon Boulus, Du Fu in Exile Jusuf Naoum, As a Dog Luci Tapahonso, In 1864 Adnan al-Sayegh, Iraq Ribka Sibhatu, In Lampedusa

Dynasties, Mercenaries and Nations

Percy Sholto, An Irish Colonel Polish Legion in Haiti, Letters Home Madame de Staël, from Ten Years’ Exile Ugo Foscolo, To Zakynthos Giacomo Leopardi, On the Monument to Dante Being Erected in Florence Adam Mickiewicz, While my corpse is here, sitting among you Pierre Falcon, General Dickson’s Song George W. Cable, from Café des Exilés Romain Rolland, from Jean-Christophe in Paris Khushwant Singh, from Train to Pakistan Tin Moe, Meeting with the Buddha Michèle Lalonde, Speak White Mahmoud Darwish, from A State of Siege Abdellatif Laâbi, from Letter to My Friends Overseas Valdemar Kalinin, And a Romani Set Off Souéloum Diagho, Exile gnaws at me Ahmatjan Osman, Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile Kajal Ahmad, Birds Omnath Pokharel, from The Short-Lived Trek

Revolutions, Counter-Revolutions and Persecutions

Victor Hugo, To Octave Lacroix Louise Michel, Voyage to Exile Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Zola Leaves France Card No. 512210, Bisbee Emma Goldman, from Living My Life Teffi, The Gadarene Swine José Carlos Mariátegui, The Exile of Trotsky Leon Trotsky, Letter to the Workers of the USSR Victor Serge, from Mexican Notebooks Marina Tsvetayeva, Homesickness Anna Seghers, from Transit Cesare Pavese, Lo Steddazzu Yannis Ritsos, A Break in Routine Carlos Bulosan, American History Barbara Toporska, The Chronicle Silva Kaputikyan, Perhaps Alessandro Spina, The Fort at Régima Miguel Martinez, Spanish Anarchists in Exile in Algeria Martha Nasibú, from Memories of an Ethiopian Princess Elena Shvarts, Why, Let the Stricken Deer Go Weep Elias Khoury, from My Name Is Adam Ashur Etwebi, A Dog Hides Its Tail in the Darkness of Night Mohsen Emadi, from The Poem

Cosmopolitanism and Rootlessness

Gabriela Mistral, The Foreign Woman Nelly Sachs, I’m searching for my Right to Roots Luis Cernuda, Impression of Exile Fernando Sylvan, Invasion Gisèle Prassinos, Nobody Is Going Anywhere Roque Dalton, Spite Breyten Breytenbach, from Notes from the Middle World Mimi Khalvati, The Soul Travels on Horseback Michael Schmidt, The Freeze Aamer Hussein, from Nine Postcards from Sanlucar de Barrameda Fred D’Aguiar, At the Grave of the Unknown African Farhad Pirbal, Waste Iman Mersal, The Idea of Houses Sholeh Wolpé, The World Grows Blackthorn Walls Kaveh Bassiri, 99 Names of Exile Fady Joudah, He came, the humanitarian man Jee Leong Koh, To a Young Poet Jenny Xie, Rootless

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