Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe

The Editor: Originally from Poland, Agnieszka Gutthy holds an M.A. in English philology from Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, and an M.A. in Spanish philology from Warsaw University, Poland. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southeastern Louisiana University, Gutthy’s research interests include European minority languages and cultures, as well as comparative literature. She has published essays on Polish, Kashubian, Spanish, and Basque literatures.

Contents: Agnieszka Gutthy: Introduction – Mabel Greta Velis Blinova: Twentieth Century Russian Literature in Exile – Kristin Reed: Language and Memory in Nabokov’s «Revolution» – Carolyn Kraus: Andrei Sinyavsky, Wisdom and Exile – Olga Zaslavsky: Catcher in the Rye: Georgy Efron’s Tashkent Exile – Fernando Presa González: Polish Literature in the Great Emigration of 1830: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński – Klara Lutsky: Living on the Margins and Loving It: Gombrowicz and Exile – Karen Bishop: Still Life: The Anti-Nostalgia of Adam Zagajewski – Klara Lutsky: Kundera’s Reception in the West – Susanlynne Beckwith: Vor(text)ual Time: The Agency of Being-in-Time and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Vedrana Velickovic: Open Wounds, the Phenomenology of Exile and the Management of Pain: Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Ministry of Pain – Tatjana Aleksić: Grief Can Only Be Written in One’s Mother Tongue: Exile and Identity in the Work of David Albahari – Timothy Nixon: Klaus Mann: The Teufelskind Doubly Exiled – Mihai Mîndra: Inescapable Colonization: Norman Manea’s Eternal Exile.