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A Genealogy of Instinct
by Steve Barbaro
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From Mandelstam Variations
by Ian Dreiblatt
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We are now accepting submissions for our May 2014 issue, Conjunctions:62, Exile.
In The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie conceives of exile as “a dream of glorious return.
Exile is a vision of revolution. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always
looking back.” Its permutations know no bounds. The political dissident deported, or
jailed, under house arrest. The defected spy. The classic prince banished by his royal
father from the city gates. The communal exile of the diaspora. The private exile of
the abused runaway. The immigrant caught in an endless limbo of displacement. The
existential exile evoked by Primo Levi when he proposes that “the most immediate fruit of
exile, of uprooting [is] the prevalence of the unreal over the real.” Through cutting-edge
fiction, poetry, and essays, Exile will explore the ramifications of expulsion and
ostracism, of being proscribed, cast out.
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