{"product_id":"the-writer-uprooted-9780253219817","title":"The Writer Uprooted","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. This collection chronicles and clarifies issues of personal and cultural dislocation and loss, but also affirms the possibilities of reorientation and renewal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis engrossing volume brings evocative personal accounts of displacement—physical, emotional, and particularly linguistic—by contemporary writers like Norman Manea, Lara Vapnyar, and Geoffrey Hartman.Spring 2009\u003c\/p\u003e * Jewish Book World *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat binds the writers in this book together, despite their varied approaches to exile and emigration, is that they all moved from one place and ideological system - the Soviet Union and Communist eastern Europe - to another, the United States, where they each have found quite successful personal and professional homes as writer, thinkers and tenured professors. This is no small feat for a fiction writer. . . Perhaps this is one of the volume's unwitting arguments: late twentieth\/early twenty-first-century America is now or has once again become the cosmopolitan reservoir of so much Jewish literary creativity.Vol. 39.2 August 2009\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Shneer * University of Colorado *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his is an immensely valuable collection of truly stimulating essays. Vol. 28, no. 1, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e * SHOFAR *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his is a worthwhile read. . . . Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers.March 2009\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ Alvin H. Rosenfeld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNomadic Language \/ Norman Manea\u003cbr\u003eOn Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return \/ Matei Calinescu\u003cbr\u003eWriting about Uprootedness \/ Henryk Grynberg\u003cbr\u003eExile as Life after Death in the Writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea \/ Katarzyna Jerzak\u003cbr\u003eThe Writer as Tour Guide \/ Lara Vapnyar\u003cbr\u003eQuestions of Identity: The New World of the Immigrant Writer \/ Morris Dickstein\u003cbr\u003eA Displaced Scholar's Tale: The Jewish Factor \/ Geoffrey Hartman\u003cbr\u003eExile: Inside and Out \/ Bronislava Volková\u003cbr\u003eFrom Country to Country: My Search for Home \/ Zsuzsanna Ozsvath\u003cbr\u003eFinding a Virtual Home for Yiddish Poetry in Southern Indiana \/ Dov-Ber Kerler\u003cbr\u003eAfterword \/ Eva Hoffman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400657379671,"sku":"9780253219817","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253219817.jpg?v=1730471223","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-writer-uprooted-9780253219817","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}