Vanished Lands

Dr. Laima Vincė Sruoginis earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, and a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in Literature, a PEN Translation Fund grant, an Academy of American Poets Award, and Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies book and dissertation awards, among other honors. Writing under the name Laima Vincė, she has published over twenty books in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Southern Maine.

Contents: Introduction: An Ocean Away and a Century in the Past – The Literary Works and Theoretical Framework – The Holocaust by Bullets in Lithuania – Lithuania’s Anti- Soviet Armed Resistance – Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Migration from Lithuania to North America – The Role of Lithuanian Émigré Writers in Shaping the Next Generation – Two Interpretations—Two Continents: Algirdas Landsbergis, Five Posts in a Market Place – Expressions of Cultural Memory in Two Lithuanian Diaspora Memoirs: Antanas Sileika, The Barefoot Bingo Caller and Daiva Markelis, White Field, Black Sheep – Catharsis Through Memory: Samuel Bak, Painted in Words— A Memoir – Postmemory as Historical Reckoning: Rita Gabis, A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet and Julija Šukys, Siberian Exile – Yiddish as Postmemory Portal: Ellen Cassedy, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust – Postmemory and Historical Accuracy.