UID:
almahu_9949702811302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004483910
,
9789042010161
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 38
Content:
Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America discusses the interaction of Polish and American culture, the transfer of the Central European experience abroad and the acculturation of major representatives of Polish literature to the United States. Contributions written by American specialists in Polish Studies tell the story of contemporary Polish expatriates who recently lived or are currently living in the U.S. These authors include directors/screen writers Roman Polanski and Agnieszka Holland, the Nobel Prize laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz, theatre critic Jan Kott, prose writer Jerzy Kosinski, essayist Eva Hoffman, and poet/translator Stanislaw Baranczak. Living in Translation presents these and other writers in terms of the duality of their profiles resulting from their engagement in two different cultures. It documents problems encountered by those who became expatriates in response to a totalitarian system they had left behind. And it revises and updates the image of the Polish exile authors, refocusing it along the lines of culture transfer, border straddling, and benefits resulting from a transcultural existence.
Note:
Introduction -- Halina STEPHAN: "Introduction: The Last Exiles" -- Beth HOLMGREN: "America, America: Scouting the Routes of Translation" -- Part I. Poets as Cultural Mediators -- Bogdana CARPENTER: "The Gift Returned: Czesław Miłosz and American Poetry" -- Clare CAVANAGH: "Setting the Handbrake: Barańczak's Poetics of Displacement" -- Frank KUJAWINSKI and Tomasz TABAKO: "A Field Guide to Tymoteusz Karpowicz" -- Regina GROL: "Eroticism and Exile: Anna Frajlich's Poetry" -- Part II. Americanization of Prose Writers -- Thomas GLADSKY: "Jerzy Kosinski: A Polish Immigrant" -- Ewa M. THOMPSON: "Leopold Tyrmand, Peripheral Subordination and the American Conservative Movement" -- Roman KOROPECKYI: "Marek Hłasko' s Letters from America" -- Anna FRAJLICH: "Henryk Grynberg: The Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth" -- Madeline LEVINE: "Eva Hoffman: Forging a Postmodern Identity" -- Part III. The Stage as Virtual Homeland -- Allen J. KUHARSKI: "Arden and Absolute Milan: Jan Kort in Exile".
Additional Edition:
Print version: Living in Translation : Polish Writers in America. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2003 ISBN 9789042010161
Language:
English
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