Literature, Exile, Alterity (eBook)

Born in Poland, Maria G. Rewakowicz is affiliated with the Slavic Department at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and has taught at Rutgers, Harvard, Columbia and the University of Washington. She is the author of four books of poetry in Ukrainian, two anthologies of the poetry of the New York Group and a book of essays Persona non grata (Kyiv, 2012). She also co-edited a collection Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe (2009). She is currently working on a monograph on literature and identities in Ukraine since 1991.

Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: New Land, New Poetry Chapter 2. Discursive Practices: Poetry as Power Chapter 3. Periphery vs. Center: The Poetics of Exile Chapter 4. From Surrealism to Postmodernism: The Poetics of Liminality Chapter 5. (Post)Modernist Masks: The Aesthetics of the Play-Element Chapter 6. From Spain with Love, or, Is There a “Spanish School” in Ukrainian Literature? Chapter 7. Transforming Desire: The Many Faces of Eroticism Chapter 8. Eros and Exile Chapter 9. Patricia Nell (Kylyna) Warren’s Constructed Alterities: Language, Self-Exile, Homosexuality Chapter 10. Literary New York: The New York Group and Beyond Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index