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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Europe (CEE) and the United States. Staging these discourses predominately by way of the embodied performances of US migrant women from Eastern Europe, Stănescu’s plays raise questions about the relationship between (post)socialist nations and the United States, and about the attendant ideologies...
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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
...Tatjana Bijelić Although massive (post)socialist migration from Eastern Europe to the West is becoming increasingly represented in post-Soviet and post-Yugoslav writing, contemporary novels on women’s experiences of immigration have received scant attention, both in their host countries...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ioana Luca The article examines how writers Miroslav Penkov, Lara Vapnyar, and Aleksandar Hemon engage and reconfigure representations of the former Eastern Bloc in US literature, including stereotypes that have been circulating in Western Europe for a long time. These texts transform prevailing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Reflections .” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 , no. 2 : 113 – 16 . Komska Yuliya . 2017 . “ Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe .” In Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries , edited by Kacandes Irene Komska Yuliya , 1 – 28 . New York : Berghahn...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
... with the influential English critic, editor, and poet A. Alvarez. In 1962, Alvarez both published The New Poetry , the anthology of “Extremist” poets that helped “set the course of the poetic mainstream for at least two decades to come” (98), and traveled to Eastern Europe and the United States to interview writers...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... In fostering such an imaginary, they come much closer to the domestic, i.e., Croatian and Central/Eastern European imaginings of (post)socialism, as the phenomenon is placed in a comparative context by Maša Kolanović. As Kolanović (2013 : 11) points out, the tenacity of the term the “other Europe,” a Cold war...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 666–673.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to the downtown tango bars on the arm of the next suitor who
can afford an ermine coat, leaving the men singing into their lonely cups
in the neighborhood café. Or the women are the prostitutes of the white
slave trade, from Eastern Europe or, more particularly in tango lyrics,
from Paris. The journey...
Journal Article
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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 401–409.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., suggests the
possibility of Smith’s manic enactment of violence as he fantasizes assas
sinating the prime minister, becoming a “martyr” and not only killing
himself but also making his corporeal remains available for cannibalistic
(and eucharistie) consumption by starving refugees from eastern...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 463–470.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in the Peace Pledge Union. In the years leading up to the Second World War, she began assisting political refugees from Germany and Eastern Europe, the most famous of these being Czesław Miłosz, who would be a friend to the end of her life. During the war, Jameson was elected president of PEN...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2013
... it broaches are those Under
Western Eyes calibrates four years earlier—namely, attacks on state power,
the rise of what Benedict Anderson calls official nationalisms practiced by
empires over their colonies, and popular and anticolonial nationalisms in
Eastern Europe. These conditions are linked...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
...-speaking culture, environment, and lawlessness pepper the North American landscape. Transnationalism and repatriation are central themes 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...
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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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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 247–258.
Published: 01 June 2018
... follows that viewers remain “haunted by certain absences in the painting”: phenomena that are not seen directly but instead vicariously through the eyes of the sundry Middle Eastern men transfixed by the child’s finely choreographed routine. To Joseph Allen Boone, in his voluminous Homoerotics...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 285–314.
Published: 01 September 2024
... 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 Europe. Like the American stage and American publishing, American cinema was in the grip of a “Jewish domination” (146), as they saw it, reading...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 674–680.
Published: 01 December 2013
... is not about religion
but about the intricacies of Jewish life in Europe and Brazil, as it moves
toward secularity.
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Just as in the case of the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik (who
was also Jewish with Eastern European ancestry), Lispector’s speech was
perceived as foreign...
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