Emigre Literature Research Articles

Педагогический потенциал американской эмигрантской литературы на примере японско-американских авторов ХХ века

Педагогический потенциал американской эмигрантской литературы на примере японско-американских авторов ХХ века

Czas Anny Frajlich

Anna Frajlich has finally received a decent collection of critical studies concerning her diverse work. Born in 1942, a poet and prose writer, who has been living in the United States for years, should have received such a recognition a long time ago, as she is an intriguing artist and an important personality in the cultural life of Polish refugees. It was fortunate, therefore, that in 2018 th volume „Here I am / inhabit my own life”. Studies and sketches about the work of Anna Frajlich, edited by Wojciech Ligęza and Jolanta Pasterska was published in Kraków . The studies and sketches on the artistry of the author of Indian Summer were collected on 433 pages, the volume contains 31 papers, the collection is well composed. We have received a volume of excellent value that reads well, satisfying the hunger of intellectual curiosity and emotional greed for the voice of the American emigrant’s interpreters. That very important work perfectly fits in the literature on the subject of emigre literature, or in general – on the subject of Polish literature of the twentieth century and after 2000, bringing much needed studies on the writings of Anna Frajlich who is here and lives in our memory.

ОЦЕНКА КУЛЬТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ Н. М. КАРАМЗИНА В РУССКОЙ ЭМИГРАНТСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ

ОЦЕНКА КУЛЬТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ Н. М. КАРАМЗИНА В РУССКОЙ ЭМИГРАНТСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ

O nurcie białoruskim w polskiej prozie emigracyjnej

Celem prezentowanego szkicu jest dostrzeżenie i wyróżnienie bardzo ważnego nurtu w polskiej powojennej prozie emigracyjnej. Nurt „powrotu do małych ojczyzn”, bardzo istotny w polskiej prozie powojennej, zaowocował wieloma dziełami wspomnieniowymi. Najważniejsze z nich poświęcone zostały ziemiom ukraińskim i białoruskim. Wspomnienia i powieści na temat życia na ziemiach białoruskich włączane są zwykle do nurtu litewskiego z powodu ich historycznej przynależności do Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego. Prezentowany szkic stanowi próbę ustanowienia właściwej hierarchii. Autorowi tekstu zależy na oddaniu ważności kultury białoruskiej dla polskiej literatury emigracyjnej, ale także na ujawnieniu budzenia się białoruskiej tożsamości narodowej. Albowiem w nurcie białoruskim napięcie między polskością i białorosyjskością odgrywa ważną rolę. I ten aspekt nie może zaginąć w refleksjach nad literackimi wspomnieniami polskiego życia na ziemiach białoruskich.

Value Сhanges in Contemporary Emigrant Literature: To Have or to Be?

The author of the article, based on the method of imagological analysis, discusses the competing scenarios of a contemporary person’s existence – to have and to be, which emerge in their especially relevant forms in the contemporary prose by Lithuanian and Latvian emigrants.The prevailing economic causes of emigration determine the predominance of having in the contemporary emigration literature. Consumption as an impetus for happiness is more typical of former societies of lack, who do not yet understand the imagological nature of such happiness – the illusiveness of possessing. In the social structure of the host countries, Lithuanian and Latvian emigrants are usually the disadvantaged class, and therefore their desire to flaunt externally, to demonstrate their superiority by externals, is eminently obvious. They strengthen their symbolic power and self-realization by displaying themselves wearing demonstrative emblems in the form of expensive items, cars, and bright makeup. The article identifies other contemporary changes of values that have emerged in the literature written by emigrants: the shredded concept of freedom, loss of dignity and self-worth for the sake of money, and imperatives of bondage (dog imagotopics). The tendencies of such behavior (distorted conception of power, dominance, prestige, dignity, and freedom) unveil the general common problems of post-Soviet societies, revealing the erosion of existence, the distorted values, and sometimes the reverse of these two social forms, when possessing finds itself in the place of being. The new egoistical ideals of freedom, which contemporary emigrants cling to, testify to endangered social thinking, the weakening of the national mentality, and the entrenching self-centeredness.The model of being, which is alternative to having, is less frequent in the narratives of emigration, and usually manifests itself as a companion of academic emigration. The paradigm of being focuses on cultural rather than material or physical property, as well as on active self-realization and inner personal development.

Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration.By John Klapper. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. 453 pages + 8 b/w illustrations. $95.00.

<b>Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration.</b><i>By John Klapper. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. 453 pages + 8 b/w illustrations. $95.00.</i>

Sergey Dovlatov’un Eserlerinde Retorik Figürler

Sergey Dovlatov’un nesri üçüncü dalga Rus Göç Edebiyatında önemli bir yere sahiptir. Son yıllarda yoğun bir ilgi ve büyük bir beğeni odağı olan yazarın özgün edebi biçemi, hayal ve gerçeğin iç içe geçtiği üslubu, eserlerini özel ve titiz bir yaklaşımla incelemeyi gerekli kılmaktadır. Söz konusu bu çalışmada, Dovlatov’un eserlerinde sözdizimsel yapıların biçem özellikleri, özellikle biçem özelliğini oluşturan retorik figürler dilbiliminin yaklaşımlarıyla ele alınmaktadır. Çalışmada, yazarın biçeminin ana özelliklerinden biri olan kurgusal boşluğu, güçlü duygusal bir anlatımla telafi etme tekniğinde retorik figürlerin önemi ve rolü yakından araştırılmaktadır. Bu hedef doğrultusunda, yapılan çalışmada yazarın eserlerinde yaygın olarak kullanılan retorik figürlerin türleri, özellikleri, işlevleri ve rolleri somutlaştırılmaktadır. Yapılan çalışmada içerik analizi, karşılaştırmalı araştırma ve retorik yorumlama yöntemleri kullanılmaktadır. İncelenen eserlerin ideolojik içeriğinin özümsenmesi, parça-bütün ilişkisi içinde ve yorumlama ilkesi doğrultusunda gerçekleşmektedir. Yapılan çalışmanın verileri, Rus Edebiyat Dili ve Rusça Biçembilim alanlarında yapılan çalışmalara katkı sağlama ve bu alanlarda verilen dersler için kaynak materyal oluşturma potansiyeline sahiptir.

Evolution of V.B. Sven’s Creative Work: From Essays and Stories to the Big Epic Form

The article for the fi rst time attempts to introduce into the Russian cultural circulation the creative heritage of V.B. Sven, whose 120th anniversary of birth was celebrated in 2017. This writer of the second wave of Russian emigration is now almost unknown in homeland. His works, however, deserve to be noticed by Russian readers and researchers. Firstly, V.B. Sven’s works, due to their high artistic level, are an integral part of Russian culture. Secondly, the writer refl ected in his literature a number of interesting historical and cultural phenomena, characteristic of the era he wrote about. A literary analysis of V.B. Sven’s works is given in correlation with his unusual biography. Many facts from the writer’s life are refl ected only in sources diffi cult to access; they are presented to a wide audience in this work for the fi rst time. The article considers the specifi cs of V.B. Sven’s creative style in the evolutionary development. The article develops a periodization of the literary array created by the writer and justifi es the conditionality of its division into periods. It shows the infl uence of M.M. Prishvin on the work of V.B. Sven, determines the place of the writer in the emigrant literature, analyzes the reviews of his works written by his contemporary critics-emigrants. Much attention is paid to the artistic innovation of V.B. Sven, his experiments in the fi eld of artistic form, inherent in later works. The article highlights the mystical element in the worldview and, accordingly, in works of the writer, and the specifi c cultural phenomenon closely associated with it — Miklashevsky’s “system”, which became the content and structural center of one of his works. The article distinguishes between the diffi culty of seeing any V.B. Sven’s lifetime printed publications, on the one hand, and the availability of texts of his works in digitized form, on the other. There is emphasized the importance, in a situation like this, of information about the existence of the works, about their merits and accessibility. The references to the article include a list of sites where the main works of the author can be found.

POETRY ON THE VERGE OF SILENCE: POETICAL ASCETICISM OF ANATOLII SHTEIGER - METAPHYSICAL CONTEXT

The article looks upon characteristic properties of poetic style of one of the brightest examples of the “Paris note” movement - of baron Anatolii Sergeevich Shteiger (1907-1944). It finds etymological roots of his ascetic lexicon and imagery that determine the immanent characteristics of one of Georgy Adamovich’s most fascinating poetic followers. It outlines a methodological analysis of structural features that reflect the poet’s tendency for architectonic and lexical minimalism. The article justifies the necessity to systematically study Anatolii Shteiger’s legacy as part of Russian Emigre Literature.

KOBIETY W LITERACKIEJ PRZESTRZENI „ROSYJSKIEGO IZRAELA”

This article discusses the role of women in the life of „Russian-speaking Israel”. The author gives the names of outstanding women — writers, poets, literary critics, representatives of Russian aliyah in Israel, the seventies and nineties. Among them are: Dora Shturman, Lydia Yanovska, Nina Voronel, Elena Axelrod, Maya Kaganskaya. It turns out that women are a significant part of the cultural space of Israel and the Russian literature of emigration.

Relocating Lives in the ‘Britain of the South’: The Influence of Emigrant Advice Manuals on the Public Writings of Nineteenth-Century Female Emigrants

ABSTRACTThroughout the nineteenth century, emigration from England to the colonies was actively promoted through promotional literature (known as ‘booster’ literature) in the form of books, pamphlets, newspaper and journal articles, scientific and ethnographic works, lectures and advertisements. The emigration companies and agents were undoubtedly self-promoting propagandists; nevertheless, the emigrant advice literature was highly influential. This article considers the ways in which nineteenth-century female immigrants to New Zealand drew on booster literature in their public writings. The specific focus is on three selected pieces of life writing, each of which mirrors key features of emigrant advice literature: a letter describing life in New Zealand from an unnamed settler’s wife in 1852; an essay titled ‘A Few Last Words About Auckland’, written as an appendix to a loosely autobiographical novel published in 1882; and a booklet titled ‘Taken In’; Being, A Sketch of New Zealand Life published in 1887. They are analysed through social historian Miles Fairburn’s thematic frame of New Zealand as a country of natural abundance that provided ample opportunities for labouring people to achieve independence, and a society which naturally created a high level of order and guaranteed middle-class people freedom from status anxiety through a simple life.

Literature of Russian Emigration: Summing up

Literature of Russian Emigration: Summing up

"Memorias dun neno labrego": la forja de un "longseller"

La obra Memorias dun neno labrego de Xosé Neira Vilas, considerada el bestseller de la literatura gallega, ha sido objeto de diversas clasificacións desde su primera edición hasta hoy. El objetivo general de nuestra contribución es ahondar en la literatura de la emigración y su significado para el sistema literario gallego, a través del estudio de la peripecia del autor y de la obra en contexto, así como de su recepción. Un segundo objetivo es poner el foco en los procesos de producción y edición de una obra literaria galega muy exitosa en el tiempo y con recorrido internacional. La metodología de estudio es el análisis sistemático de los peritextos de las ediciones de la obra, de la ingente correspondencia epistolar del autor y de la crítica literaria para, a través de su recepción, desgranar el/los significado(s) que la obra ha adquirido en estos cincuenta y cinco años. Este recorrido ofrece datos que nos llevan a concluir que Memorias es una obra de emigración, de largo recorrido (longseller). En nuestro trabajo, además de recopilar información crítica, contribuimos con nuevos datos sobre dos proyectos editoriales singulares (Follas Novas y Rúa Nova) que la incluyeron o proyectaron incluirla en su catálogo.

Memorocentrism as the worldview marker of the first wave of Russian emigration literature

Memorocentrism as the worldview marker of the first wave of Russian emigration literature

Беластоцкія этапы жыццёвага і творчага шляху Масея Сяднёва

The paper discusses two essential Bialystok-based stages in the life and creative work of Masiej Sednev, one of the most talented representatives of Belarusian emigration literature, and a Nobel Prize nominee. Forced to leave Soviet Belarus for the West, he worked as a proof-reader in a Belarusian newspaper „The New Road”, issued in Bialystok, from October 1943 to May 1944. In 1991 Bialystok notebook was published in „Niva”, the weekly newspaper of the Belarusians in Poland, where he shares the memories about this stage of his life. Since 1998 a close cooperation began between M. Sednev and the magazine „Termopile”, issued by the Belarusian literary association in Poland. The paper analyzes Bialystok notebook and the works by M. Sednev, printed in „Termopile”, furthermore, attention is drawn to the publications dedicated to the memory of the writer.

Klapper, John. Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration

Journal Article Klapper, John. Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration Get access John Klapper. Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration. Rochester, NY: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture), 2015. 464 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978–1–57113–909–2 Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2017, Page 115, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqw098 Published: 23 February 2017

Emigration and Caribbean Literature, written by Malachi McIntosh

Emigration and Caribbean Literature, written by Malachi McIntosh

“I Had a Long Corres­pondence with Litnasledstvo”: On the Story of Adamovich’s Failed Participation in the Preparation of the Bunin Litna­sledstvo Volume

This article considers one of the earliest attempts of Soviet editors to resume the relationship with emigrants during the thaw period. Letter interchange as well as any kind of interaction between Soviet editors and emigrant authors was extremely rare at the time. One of the first attempts to get emigre authors to cooperate was the Bunin volume of the Literaturnoye Nasledstvo (the famous Literary Heritage series), whose preparation began in the mid-1960s. While working on the volume in 1966, the Litnasledstvo editors asked Georgy Adamovich to write memoirs about Ivan Bunin. Their correspondence lasted for several years (1966—1970), and the memoirs were finally written, but the thaw period had also come to an end, and, consequently, the publication was impeded by the Soviet censorship. The return of Bunin and emigre literature to Soviet Russia was only partially successful at the time. This article is accompanied by an appendix containing all the extant correspondence of Georgy Adamovich with the editors of the Bunin volume: it was preserved in the editorial archive of the Literaturnoye Nasledstvo and is now kept in the Department of Manuscripts of the Gorky Institute of World Literature (OR IMLI, F. 575).

Book Review: John Klapper: Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of the Inner Emigration

Book Review: John Klapper: <i>Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of the Inner Emigration</i>

Fordist Connections: The Automotive Integration of the United States and Iran

AbstractThis essay unravels the intertwined emergence of “Fordist” connections and conceptions of America in Iran during the 1920s. By focusing on the interplay of infrastructure and information, I use a Persian travelogue to chart the impact of motor transport that, in the wake of the First World War, connected a formerly isolated Iran to the Arab Mediterranean and thence to America. Compared to the extensive Levantine encounter with the Americas that from the 1870s generated an Arab diaspora and Arabic emigration literature from Buenos Aires to Detroit, the Iranian encounter with the United States was much later and more limited. This changed rapidly, however, with the opening of the “Nairn Way” and the importing of American automobiles, developments that tied Iran to the Levant at the very moment American strategists were coining the unitary spatial concept of a “Middle East.” In Iran, this conjunctural moment coincided with the rise of Riza Shah and the nationalist search for a third-power strategy to negate a century of Russian and British influence. Expanding the recent literature on Middle Eastern globalization, this essay uses ‘Abdullah Bahrami's 1926 travelogueAz Tihran ta Niyu Yurk(From Tehran to New York) to reconstruct what Iran's new nation-builders hoped to learn from the United States during the formative decade of U.S.-Iran relations. From behind the better-known story of petropolitics, Bahrami's travelogue captures the turning point when the United States first rose on the globalizing horizons of Iran's modernizing nationalists.