Literature of exile of East and Central Europe
By: edited by Agnieszka Gutthy.
Contributors: Gutthy, Agnieszka.
Series: Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature -- v. 30
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781433104909
Subjects: East European literature -- History and criticism; Central European literature -- History and criticism; Exiles' writings, East European -- History and criticism; Exiles' writings, Central European -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Agnieszka Gutthy; title: Russian writers in exile: memory, language, and art. Twentieth century Russian literature in exile / Mabel Greta Velis Blinova; title: Language and memory in Nabokov's Revolution / Kristin Reed; title: Andrei Sinyavsky, wisdom and exile / Carolyn Kraus; title: Catcher in the rye: Georgy Efron's Tashkent exile / Olga Zaslavsky; title: Polish messianism and anti-sentimentality. Polish literature in the Great Emigration of 1830: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, and Zygmunt Krasinski / Fernando Presa Gonzalez; title: Living on the margins and loving it: Gombrowicz and exile / Klara Lutsky; title: Still life: the anti-nostalgia of Adam Zagajewski / Karen Bishop; title: The mosaic of Kundera. Kundera's reception in the West / Klara Lutsky; title: Vor(text)ual time: the agency of being-in-time and Milan Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being / Susanlynne Beckwith; title: Post-Yugoslav exile: disjunctive memory and unhealed wounds. Open wounds, the phenomenology of exile and the management of pain: Dubravka Ugresic's The ministry of pain / Vedrana Velickovic; title: Grief can only be written in one's mother tongue: exile and identity in the work of David Albahari / Tatjana Aleksic; title: Doubly damned: Klaus Mann and Norman Manea. Inescapable colonization: Norman Manea's Eternal exile / Mihai Mindra; title: Klaus Mann: The teufelskind doubly exiled / Timothy Nixon.