Honoured to be included in this book! Here is the press release from Mateusz Świetlicki:
Together with Dagmara Drewniak, Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg, and Izabella Kimak, we are happy to announce that our book, “Central and Eastern Europeans in North American Literature and Culture: Under Western Eyes,” will be published in the fall in Routledge’s Research in American Literature and Culture series. We gratefully acknowledge the University of Wrocław (Poland) for its support, as this publication was partially funded by the “Excellence Initiative—Research University” (IDUB) program.
The volume examines how Central and Eastern Europe and its peoples have been imagined, represented, and reinterpreted in North American literature and culture. We would like to thank all the contributors: Cecilia Woloch, Steven Seegel, Marsha J. Skrypuch, Erin Litteken, Gabriele Goldstone, Eva Stachniak, Amanda McCrina, Marina Scott, Norman Ravvin, Małgorzata Rutkowska, Marta Koval, Mariya Shymchyshyn, Elżbieta Tyszkowska-Kasprzak, Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik, Lukáš Perutka, Joanna Kula, Natalia Vysotska, Janusz Pasterski, Maciej Laskowski, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Gabriela Zimkowska-Wisłocka, Anna Boginskaya, Regan Lipes, Dominika Ferens, and Anita Jarczok.
Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars from several countries, the volume explores fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children’s and young adult literature, comics, film, television, the press, the internet, and video games. Its chapters address migration, diaspora, memory, identity, Jewishness, religion, war, gender, ethnicity, Indigenous relations, and stereotypes, placing literary and cultural representations within broader historical and political contexts. The collection also features original vignettes by bestselling and award-winning American and Canadian authors Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Eva Stachniak, Amanda McCrina, Erin Litteken, Marina Scott, Norman Ravvin, and Gabriele Goldstone, along with a foreword by Cecilia Woloch and an afterword by Steven Seegel containing unpublished poetry. Combining critical scholarship with creative voices, the book offers a wide-ranging account of the presence, influence, and representation of Central and Eastern Europe in North American cultural life.
Under Western Eyes / W oczach Zachodu
