Format:
1 online resource (273 pages)
ISBN:
9780253000361
Content:
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 such as Matei Calinescu, Morris Dickstein, Henryk Grynberg, Geoffrey Hartman, Eva Hoffman, Katarzyna Jerzak, Dov-Ber Kerler, Norman Manea, Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, Lara Vapnyar, and Bronislava Volkova 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.
Content:
cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Nomadic Language -- On Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return -- Writing about Uprootedness -- Exile as Life after Death in the Writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea -- The Writer as Tour Guide -- Questions of Identity: The New World of the Immigrant Writer -- A Displaced Scholar's Tale: The Jewish Factor -- Exile: Inside and Out -- From Country to Country: My Search forHome -- Finding a Virtual Home for Yiddish Poetry in Southern Indiana -- Afterword -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253351449
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The writer uprooted Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2008 ISBN 9780253219817
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253351449
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0253219817
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0253351448
Additional Edition:
Print version The Writer Uprooted : Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Juden
;
Exilliteratur
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Author information:
Rosenfeld, Alvin H. 1938-
