... on in the Russian American immigrant literature that has sprung up since the turn of the millennium. The city even has its own New World simulacrum in New York’s “Little Odessa” neighborhood. This article investigates the impact of the “Odessa Text” on the work of two Odessa-born US authors, the poet Ilya Kaminsky...

... : Univers Enciclopedic . Moore David Chioni . 2001 . “ Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet? Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique .” PMLA 116 , no. 1 : 111 – 28 . Mukherjee Bharati . 2011 . “ Immigrant Writing: Changing the Contours of a National Literature...

... women. This work has remained understudied, both in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc and the nations that received these migrants ( Nicolaescu 2014 : 9–10), despite the growth in scholarship on literatures of immigration by authors from other parts of the world. This fictional work is often...

... a sense of cohesion among them by looking at how certain recurrent themes or narrative devices emerge and evolve as major tropes for immigrant literature. Public spaces—most notably the subway or the trolley—often become the literary and cultural sites of identity negotia- tion, and various writers...

... (2006). Like his first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002), Absurdistan repositions Russian Jewish immigrant literature within a transnational framework that is reminiscent of the work by Dominican American writer Junot Diaz. 3 Set in St. Petersburg and in a small fictional country...

... to articulate their own experiences. Asian American immigrant literature appears a generation or more later than its Jewish American counterpart in the late 1930s and comes into its own only in the post—World War II era. And even as this was happening, Jewish Ameri­ can cultural prominence received...

... socialist Europe and the United States. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Eastern Europe immigrant literature postsocialism postsocialist memory Soviet Union transnational US literature It is becoming increasingly clear that new “critical contexts” ( Goldsworthy 2014 : 3...

... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Hayot Eric . 2007 . “ Immigrating Fictions: Unfailing Mediation in Dictée and ‘Becoming Madame Mao’ .” In Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization , edited by Walkowitz Rebecca Keller Lynn , 601 – 35 . Madison...

...Delia C. Konzett Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing , by Franco Dean J. , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2006 . 219 pages. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America , by Cowart David...

... to an immigrant’s leaving the country” (92–93). Many were able to elude the orders, which were difficult to enforce. 21. I want to thank Twentieth-Century Literature’s anonymous reader for point- ing me to this rhetorical continuity. 22. For Ray, a Haitian national, Stephens writes, the “principle...

..., a nation of immigrants, has created great literature out of the phenomenon of cultural transplantationit may be that by discovering what we have in common with those who preceded us into this country, we can do the same. (20) The troublesome issue of race in immigration has been...

..., literature, and history, feminist and gender theory, and women’s studies, it is strongest and most interesting in its final chapters, where Duncan moves out of the thicket of existing scholarship and breaks fresh ground. The book begins with a thorough survey of existing literary scholar­ ship...

.... John wants to put his literature into the central libraries abroad, rewriting the story of South Africa in Britain. Paul’s project is also to update the national records by placing his collec- tion of photographs of immigrants coming to Australia around the time of Goethe and Burchell...

...Irene Tucker Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature , by Wirth-Nesher Hana , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2006 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m Reviews Writing Jewish Call It English: The Languages o f Jewish American...

.... Hassan, Waïl S. Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab- American and Arab-British Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 2011. Malak, Amin. Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. Matthes, Frauke. Writing and Muslim Identity...

..., I challenge these readings 530Twentieth-Century Literature 56.4 Winter 2010 530 John Fante’s Ask the Dust and Fictions of  Whiteness of the novel and their assessment of Arturo’s ethnoracial position in par- ticular. My argument proceeds from two assumptions that differ from...

... of the twenty-first century would succeed the children of Jewish immigrants as the driving force for a new phase in American literature, Song tracks the effects of the bill from the demographic shifts it put in motion to the literature that resulted. Before 1965, Asians in America, generally speak- ing...

... that celebrate mobility, and more diverse communities in order to reflect on “the interconnected global environment of the new millennium” (2). US literature has become transnational to such an unprecedented extent precisely because the ranks of its writers are filled by immigrant authors, such as Novakovich...

... story “Interpreter o f Maladies” was selected for the O. H enry Prize and for inclusion in Best American Short Stories. H er book o f collected stories, Interpreter of Maladies, w on the Pulitzer Prize in literature. And in the following year, The New Yorker named her one of the 20...

..., 2001 attacks. I argue, however, that it is precisely as a post-9/11 novel that Aloft demands to be read. Such a claim may seem counterintuitive. In his book After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11 (2011), Richard Gray charges that by and large, post-9/11 American novels merely...