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OverviewIn 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration. Soviet-Born demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karolina KrasuskaPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9781978832763ISBN 10: 1978832761 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 09 September 2024 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""A Greyhound bus dream of sitting next to Philip Roth who recommends reading Bernard Malamud, an imagined encounter between a Russian-born nurse and Jonathan Safran Foer, and invocations of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anton Chekhov, and Sholem Aleichem. Based on interviews with the authors and careful readings of their works, Karolina Krasuska's Soviet-Born draws a broad and vividly illustrated panorama of contemporary writing by migrants from the former Soviet Union, challenging comforting American Cold War clichés as well as the narrow norms of generalized Jewish genealogies.""--Werner Sollors ""Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University""" Author InformationKAROLINA KRASUSKA is an associate professor at the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a founding member of its Gender/Sexuality Research Group. She is a coeditor of Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges and the Polish translator of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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