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EXILE, civil law. The: interdiction of all places except one in which the
party is forced to make his residence.
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Increasingly we are dealing with what Bruce Robbins calls "different modalities of situatedness-in-displacement" (250) as globalization, migration, and forced exile have separated people from places and made conceptions of ethnicity less static and more mobile, fluid, and hybrid as they are subject to a greater variety of cultural influences. Ghandour's song is a moody evocation of the meaning of place and the spiritual costs of forced exile from that place. This past April, President Bush followed through on his promise to commemorate this event with a signed statement, "Today marks the commemoration of one of the great tragedies of history: the forced exile and annihilation of approximately 1. |
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