And They Did Not Return: Exile, Loss, and Literature

And They Did Not Return: Exile, Loss, and Literature

Many thanks to the Department of English and the Exile Studies Program at Florida International University for inviting me to give a talk:  “And They Did Not Return”:  Exile, Loss, and Literature.  So grateful to the hundred plus students and faculty who attended, listened with such attention, and asked questions with such intelligence about the ways in which writers create “imaginary homelands.”