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Staging the Postsocialist Woman: Saviana Stănescu’s Alternative Transnations
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
...)socialist knowledge. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Central and Eastern Europe immigrant theater postsocialism transnational theater women in the theater Through theatricality, the other is positioned and understood. —Jon D. Rossini, Theater in the Americas Saviana...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . “ Little America: Eastern European Economic Cultures in the EU .” In The Anti-American Century , edited by Krastev Ivan McPherson Alan , 27 – 49 . Budapest : CEU Press . Labov Jessie . 2002 . “ A Russian Encounter with the Myth of Central Europe .” Paper presented at the conference...
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Geopolitical Imaginaries: Croatian Diasporic Writers in North America
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... The American government therefore considered the area , not a particular country, to be a single problem called ‘Eastern Europe.’” To address this entrenched epistemological problem, the editors call for “cooperation with scholars from other Central European countries [in addition to Poland] and the United...
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Transnational American Studies: A Postsocialist Phoenix
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Joseph Benatov The article argues that the transnational turn in American studies was born out of the demise of socialist Eastern Europe. To this day, the region has remained the unacknowledged generative transnational space that enabled the international reorientation of American studies...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . Funk Nanette . 2004 . “ Feminist Critiques of Liberalism: Can They Travel East? Their Relevance in Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union .” Signs 29 , no. 3 : 696 – 726 . Gal Susan Kligman Gail . 2000 . The Politics of Gender after Socialism . Princeton, NJ...
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Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry by Justin Quinn
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 2007 , and Read 2009 . 1 The historically apt phrase denotes the bloc of Cold War communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. Clare Cavanagh (2009) makes a similar point about critical neglect of Eastern European poetry (see Quinn, 38–39). I hope other scholars will take up...
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Postsocialist Fiction and Frameworks: Miroslav Penkov, Lara Vapnyar, and Aleksandar Hemon
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the former Eastern European/Soviet spaces as well as point to publics and counterpublics (in Michael Warner’s understanding) of the former socialist space. Warner’s work is particularly central to the discussion of literary circulation, as a “public comes into being only in relation to texts...
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The Homoerotics of Orientalism by Joseph Allen Boone
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 247–258.
Published: 01 June 2018
... that we focus on the central figure. With his back turned to us, the slender boy stands upright on a rug, holding aloft the head of a muscular reptile whose lithe body coils twice around his torso. The fact that the creature clothes the child’s chest and back means that the viewer’s gaze lingers...
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Ethical Limits and Confession in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and “Poland Revisited”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2013
... witness, Conrad’s 1911
novel, Under Western Eyes, depicts the underground dealings of administers
and challengers of the Russian state as they travel across various geopo-
litical, cultural, and linguistic terrains of Europe. Suggesting the central
role testimony will play in this text, Conrad...
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Transnationalism in Contemporary Post-Soviet North American Literature
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
... for Shteyngart, who came to the United States at the age of seven. In two of his novels, he sends his protagonists on return trips to Central and Eastern Europe. The main character in the Russian Debutante’s Handbook goes to Prava, a capital fashioned after Prague, a favorite destination for Russians...
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Writing Jewish
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 67–73.
Published: 01 March 2007
... language), Baal Makhshoves [Israel Isadore Elyashev]
observed that the mark of Jewish literature has always been its bilingual
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ism. Moreover, this trend did not begin with the emergence of Yiddish
in middle and eastern Europe but operated even at the moments He
brew...
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H.D.’s American Sea Garden: Drowning the Idyll Threat to US Modernism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., Sea Garden engages the same questions of international,
cosmopolitan identity and American national belonging that are central
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to modernist debates about defining US literary identity. Far from evading...
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Competing Paradigms of Multiculturalism?
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2009
... intellectual life. Unlike other migrant labor groups (Italians,
Irish, Chinese),Jewish immigrants and refugees arrived as a single cultural
group due to massive pogroms and persecution in Eastern Europe at the
turn of the previous century, bringing along with them an infrastructure
of education...
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“There Is No Such City”: The Myth of Odessa in Post-Soviet Immigrant Literature
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 121–144.
Published: 01 March 2019
... rather than being assigned to a ready-made category. At the same time, as we have seen, Kaminsky has been quite apt in exploiting his Odessa origins as a tool of branding. Akhtiorskaya is aware of the pitfalls that come with the “writer from Eastern Europe” label. A minor character in her novel...
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Fantasias on National Themes: Fantasy, Space, and Imperialism in Rebecca West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the past: and I can disregard, and dislike for their incursions on my reverie, the people in the streets, who happen to be the age in which I live. —Rebecca West, “A London Letter” All Central Europe seems to me to be enacting a fantasy which I cannot interpret. —Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey...
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Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled by Nicholas Allen
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 353–363.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on the littoral arc from Dalkey to Howth and whose focal characters are linked by sea and memory to other places (Stephen, Paris; Molly, Gibraltar; Bloom, Central and Eastern Europe). The antiterritorial implications of this watery poetics are evident throughout the novel, culminating in Molly Bloom’s mingling...
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Hannibal Lecter as Avenging War Orphan in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... it. Grutas is neither fearful nor apologetic when confronted by Hannibal. Instead, he reminds Hannibal that his is just one of many horror stories from the eastern front: “‘You lost your sister in the war.’ Grutas belched and laughed. ‘That burp is my commentary. Are you looking for sympathy? You’ll find...
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Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America by Mariano Siskind
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 528–534.
Published: 01 December 2015
... focused on eastern Europe and the far Orient. Siskind notes that Gómez Carrillo’s travel to colonized regions makes clear that French culture had been exported to such an extent that cities as diverse as Buenos Aires, Shanghai, and Saigon could all be experienced as versions of Paris. This concretizes...
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Gurnah and Naipaul: Intersections of Paradise and A Bend in the River
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Guilt .” In Cultural Studies , edited by Grossberg L. Nelson C. Treichler P. , 56 – 68 . London : Routledge . Bhabha Homi K 1994 . The Location of Culture . London : Routledge . Burton Richard. 1859 . “ The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa .” Journal...
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British Authorship and Americanization in the Age of Silent Cinema
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 285–314.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... For Veronica and Paul King, however, the global reach of American cinema in the 1920s represented an appalling sign of degeneracy, and in The Raven and the Skyscraper (1925 : 15) they mourned the loss of an American “race,” blaming the country’s high rates of Jewish immigration from central and Eastern...
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