Literature, Exile, Alterity

Born in Poland, Maria G. Rewakowicz is affiliated with the Slavic Department at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and has taught at Rutgers, Harvard, Columbia and the University of Washington. She is the author of four books of poetry in Ukrainian, two anthologies of the poetry of the New York Group and a book of essays Persona non grata (Kyiv, 2012). She also co-edited a collection Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe (2009). She is currently working on a monograph on literature and identities in Ukraine since 1991.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: New Land, New PoetryChapter 2. Discursive Practices: Poetry as PowerChapter 3. Periphery vs. Center: The Poetics of ExileChapter 4. From Surrealism to Postmodernism: The Poetics of LiminalityChapter 5. (Post)Modernist Masks: The Aesthetics of the Play-ElementChapter 6. From Spain with Love, or, Is There a “Spanish School” in Ukrainian Literature?Chapter 7. Transforming Desire: The Many Faces of EroticismChapter 8. Eros and ExileChapter 9. Patricia Nell (Kylyna) Warren’s Constructed Alterities: Language, Self-Exile, HomosexualityChapter 10. Literary New York: The New York Group and BeyondConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex

“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.”