...habit of seeing estrangement in everything modern as an affectation, a display of modish attitudes. Clutching difference like a weapon to be used with...into an intransigence that is not easily ignored. Wiltulncss, exaggeration, overstatement: these are characteristic styles of being an exile, methods...

...questioning of assimilation and foreignness. Edward Said helps explain the uses of exile when he writes, "Clutching difference like a weapon to be used with...stiffened will, the exile jealously insists on his right to refuse to belong."28 Mendieta s work evinces a similar stubbornness insofar as it insists...

...eccentrics who feel their difference (even as they frequently exploit it) as a kind of orphanhood. (...) Clutching difference like a weapon to be used with...insists on his or her right to refuse to belong." This term comes from Allison Weir, whose discussion of the mother construct in Julia Kristeva's work in...

...habit of seeing estrangement in everything modern as an affectation, a display of modish attitudes. Clutching difference like a weapon to be used with...compelling the world to accept your vision — which you make more unacceptable because you are in fact unwilling to have it accepted. It is yours, after...

...community, on preserving tradition and shunning assimilation. DECONSTRUCTING TIBETAN REFUGEE ALOOFNESS Clutching difference like a weapon to be used with...stiffened will, the exile jealously insists on his right to refuse to belong. Edward Said Melvyn Goldstein, a Tibet scholar who took an early interest...

...other diaspora and exilic writers, expresses the cultural difference of her pueblo (people or town): [C]lutching difference like a weapon to be used with...acceptable because you are in fact unwilling to have it accepted.1 5 Bernard's different political and poetic positions in her collections are audiencebased....