Placeless people: writing, rights, and refugees

Introduction: Placeless people: writings, rights, and refugees

Part One. Reading statelessness. Reading statelessness: Arendt's Kafka ; Hannah Arendt's message of ill tidings

Part Two. Placeless people. Orwell's Jews ; Simone Weil's uprooted ; Beckett's expelled

Part Three. Sands of sorrow. Sands of Sorrow: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine ; Statelessness and the poetry of the borderline: W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh.