Literature, Exile, Alterity : : The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets / / Maria G. Rewakowicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015
• VerfasserIn: Rewakowicz, Maria G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and their adopted homelands, underscoring the group’s role in the shaping of the cultural and literary image of Ukraine abroad. Displacements, forced or voluntary, engender states of alterity, states of living in-between, living in the interstices of different cultures and different linguistic realities. The poetry of the founding members of the New York Group reflects these states admirably. The poets accepted their exilic condition with no grudges and nurtured the link with their homeland via texts written in the mother tongue. This account of the group’s output and legacy will appeal to all those eager to explore the poetry of East European nations and to those interested in larger cultural contexts for the development of European modernisms.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 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