...Oana Popescu-Sandu In her transnational plays Lenin’s Shoe (2010) and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (2010), Romanian American playwright Saviana Stănescu explores discourses of capitalist market economies, democracy, postsocialism, and gender that overlie the geographies of Central and Eastern...

... University 2019 Donald Pease Eastern Europe F. O. Matthiessen New Americanists postsocialism transnational American studies US empire Out of the smoldering ashes of socialist Eastern Europe . . . On November 9, 2014, eight thousand illuminated balloons took to the Berlin night sky. The...

... the former 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...

... models for the study of transnationalism in US literature and culture. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Croatian American literature Josip Novakovich Neda Miranda Blažević-Krietzman postsocialism US transnational literature Americanists working in East Central European countries...

... reserved. American studies Cold War Eastern/Central Europe immigration studies postsocialism Russian American literature Slavic studies Soviet Union US immigrant writing This special issue calls attention to an emergent body of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural...