Author(s): Dr. Rachid Toumi

Abstract: This paper explores the themes of expatriation and identity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son. It examines the meaning and the function of expatriation and how it relates to the search for personal identity for both American writers by looking at the intertext of their Parisian memoirs. It shows how these transatlantic authors strategically use expatriate space as a laboratory to reconstruct personal identity as individuals and as artists via the high level of intellectualism self-exile stimulates in a social context characterized by alienation.

Keywords: Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, America, alienation, Expatriation, Personal Identity

Article Info: Received: 13 Dec 2023; Received in revised form: 14 Jan 2024; Accepted: 23 Jan 2024; Available online: 04 Feb 2024

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.91.16