Writer Uprooted - Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature

Informationen zum Autor edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America! most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. This collection chronicles and clarifies issues of personal and cultural dislocation and loss! but also affirms the possibilities of reorientation and renewal. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction / Alvin H. Rosenfeld Nomadic Language / Norman Manea On Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return / Matei Calinescu Writing about Uprootedness / Henryk Grynberg Exile as Life after Death in the Writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea / Katarzyna Jerzak The Writer as Tour Guide / Lara Vapnyar Questions of Identity: The New World of the Immigrant Writer / Morris Dickstein A Displaced Scholar's Tale: The Jewish Factor / Geoffrey Hartman Exile: Inside and Out / Bronislava Volková From Country to Country: My Search for Home / Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Finding a Virtual Home for Yiddish Poetry in Southern Indiana / Dov-Ber Kerler Afterword / Eva Hoffman List of Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Alvin H. (EDT) Rosenfeld
• Assisted by: Edited by Alvin H Rosenfeld (Editor), Alvin H Rosenfeld (Editor), Alvin H. Rosenfeld (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2008
• EAN: 9780253219817
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21981-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Jewish Literature & Culture (P; Jewish Literature and Culture; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies