...he argues, can produce rancor and regret as well as sharpened vision. What has been left behind may either be mourned, or it can be used to provide a...go together, it is what one remembers of the past and how one remembers it that determines how one sees the future.1 Like Said, I left a politically...

...In Reflections on Exile, Edward Said describes this unique capacity for memory to affect the future: "Since almost by definition exile and memory go together, it is what one remembers of the past and how one remembers it that determine how one sees the future."73 Similarly, Naylor points to the...

...Imagining the Future in the Light of a Violent Past "Exile can produce rancour an regret, as well as sharpened vision. What has been left behind can either...the past that determines how one sees the future. (Said 2001 : xxxv)" I did not come to San Francisco to study conspiracy theories. My intended research...

...have an enormous impact on those who live in exile or a diaspora, so much so that, as Said has stated, 'it is what one remembers of the past that determines how one sees the future' (2000:xxxv). For first-generation diaspora Croats return involves the idea of reconnection with the...