Perspectives on Modern Central and East European Literature

LUBICA BABOTOVA Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Presov University, Slovakia GEORGE GÖMÖRI Lecturer in Polish and Hungarian, University of Cambridge DIANA A. KUPREL Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto JELENA MILOJKOVIC-DJURIC Lecturer and Author LARISSA M.L.Z. ONYSHKEVYCH Editor and Author DUBRAVKA ORAIC-TOLIC Professor of Literary Theory, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Zagreb MARKO PAVLYSHYN Head of Slavic Studies, Monash University, Melbourne and President of the Australian and New Zealand Slavists' Association HALINA STEHPAN Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Florida MALGORZATA SUGIERA Professor, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

• General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Quests for Identity in Modern Central and East European Literature; T.P.Armstrong Demystifying High Culture? 'Young' Ukrainian Poetry and Prose in the 1990s; M.Pavlyshyn The Problem of the Definitive Literary Text and Political Censorship; L.Onyshkevich Transcarpathian Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century; L.Babotova Poetry and Politics: The New Wave and György Petri; G.Gömöri Czeslaw Milosz's Zdobycie wladzy : The Structure of the Polish Dilemma; T.P.Armstrong Nationality in Recent Polish Émigré Drama; H.Stephan To Escape From History One Day: Slawomir Mrozek's On Foot, Portrait , and Love in the Crimea; M.Sugiera Witold Gombrowicz's Ludic Theatre; D.A.Kuprel The Poetic Messages of Serbian Women Writers in Diaspora; J.Milojkovic-Djuric Post-modernist Culture and the War; D.Oraic-Tolic Index