Immigrant Baggage : : Morticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile / / Maxim D. Shrayer.
From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) exp...
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Shrayer, Maxim D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Immigrant Baggage : Morticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile / Maxim D. Shrayer. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (146 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Translingual Adventures -- Ribs of Eden -- Romance with a Mortician -- In the Net of Composer N. -- Only One Day in Venice -- Yelets Women’s High School -- A Return to Kafka -- Acknowledgements -- Index of Names and Places restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him—Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer’s autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life’s misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history’s black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the émigré protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book’s six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist’s imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd—ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery—and sustained by family love and faith in art’s transcendence. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Authors, American 20th century Biography. Immigrants United States Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish. bisacsh American:literature. Jewish. Kafka. Russian. Soviet-era. immigrant. memoirs. travels. émigré. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783111023540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2023 Part 2 9783111178042 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English 9783111319186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 9783111318264 ZDB-23-DSP https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699997 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644699997 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644699997/original |
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