Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781618117779)

This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian migr 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.

Author: Maria G. Rewakowicz
ISBN-10: 1618117777
ISBN-13: 9781618117779
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2018
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d