The Writer Uprooted
Subtitle: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780253219817
Subjects: Fiction; Jewish studies; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; American - General; Essays; Jewish - General; 20th century; American literature; Europe, Eastern; History and criticism; Jewish authors
Description: "The Writer Uprooted is the first book to examine the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. In essays that are both personal and scholarly, the contributors to this collection chronicle and clarify issues of personal and cultural dislocation and loss, but also affirm the possibilities of reorientation and renewal. Writers, poets, translators, and critics describe how they have coped creatively with the trials of displacement and the challenges and opportunities of resettlement in a new land and, for some, authorship in a new language."--BOOK JACKET.