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ABSTRACT: Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor argues that illnesses like cancer are harder to endure because of the metaphors of dread that accompany them. Exiles experience a similar phenomenon. The real dimensions of the experience can be made harder by metaphors of dispossession and loss. Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory is a profound reflection on—and rebellion against—the metaphors that defined the Russian exile experience after 1917. This essay discusses the experience of the author's own family to examine how they struggled against the undertow of metaphor that shaped their experience of exile.
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