Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature
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...
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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.Choice. . . this is a worthwhile read. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers.
Introduction Alvin H. Rosenfeld Rosenfeld, Alvin H.Nomadic Language Norman Manea Manea, Norman 1On Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return Matei Calinescu Calinescu, Matei 27Writing about Uprootedness Henryk Grynberg Grynberg, Henryk 51Exile as Life after Death in the Writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea Katarzyna Jerzak Jerzak, Katarzyna 75The Writer as Tour Guide Lara Vapnyar Vapnyar, Lara 92Questions of Identity: The New World of the Immigrant Writer Morris Dickstein Dickstein, Morris 110A Displaced Scholar's Tale: The Jewish Factor Geoffrey Hartman Hartman, Geoffrey 133Exile: Inside and Out Bronislava Volkova Volkova, Bronislava 161From Country to Country: My Search for Home Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna 177Finding a Virtual Home for Yiddish Poetry in Southern Indiana Dov-Ber Kerler Kerler, Dov-Ber 216Afterword Eva Hoffman Hoffman, Eva 234List of Contributors 247Index 251
\ Jewish Book World"This engrossing volume brings evocative personal accounts of displacement—physical, emotional, and particularly linguistic—by contemporary writers like Norman Manea, Lara Vapnyar, and Geoffrey Hartman." —Jewish Book World, Spring 2009\ \ \ \ \ East European Book Review"What binds the writers in this book together, despite their varied approaches to exile and emigration, is that they all moved from one place and ideological system - the Soviet Union and Communist eastern Europe - to another, the United States, where they each have found quite successful personal and professional homes as writer, thinkers and tenured professors. This is no small feat for a fiction writer... Perhaps this is one of the volume's unwitting arguments: late twentieth/early twenty-first-century America is now or has once again become the cosmopolitan reservoir of so much Jewish literary creativity." —David Shneer, University of Colorado, East European Book Review, Vol. 39.2 August 2009\ — David Shneer, University of Colorado\ \ \ \ Shofar"[T]his is an immensely valuable collection of truly stimulating essays." —SHOFAR, Vol. 28, no. 1, 2009\ \ \ \ \ Choice"[T]his is a worthwhile read.... Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers." —Choice, March 2009\ \
