Literature, Exile, Alterity

Maria G. Rewakowicz, poet, translator and literary scholar, holds a Ph.D in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto, Canada. Currently she is a visiting lecturer in the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

• Acknowledgments 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

“Long overdue, this book-length study of the New York Group, whose poetry appeared at an important juncture in Ukrainian diasporic literature, benefits from careful archival research as well as from the author’s personal knowledge of many of the poets. Encompassing aspects of literary politics, social history, and textual analysis, the book offers sensitive, sensible, and accessible readings of major themes and concerns in their oeuvre.”