The Invention of Exile To speak of writers in exile is to raise the question of who perceives them, as well as from what it is that they are perceived to be exiled. In the present, postcolonial moment, the popular perception of the writer who lives abroad is of one who is disconnected from rootsitself a problematic category, but one that draws powerfully upon processes of dispossession and displacement. Typical in this respect is Gareth Griffiths's observation, with reference to African and Caribbean writers living in London, that
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Kenneth Parker (1993) studied this question.