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In 2010, when
The
New Yorker
published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whomAmerican Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgiswere Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America.
Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction
traces the impact of these now numerous authorsamong others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyaron major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary.
Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration.
Soviet-Born
demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates.
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
The
New Yorker
published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whomAmerican Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgiswere Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America.
Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction
traces the impact of these now numerous authorsamong others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyaron major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary.
Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration.
Soviet-Born
demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates.
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.