Literature, Exile, Alterity ― The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets

Rewakowicz presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the activity and work of postwar Ukrainian immigrant poets in New York. The author has organized the main body of her text in nine chapters focused on discursive practices in poetry, the poetics of exile, postmodernist and modernist masks and the poetics of liminality, and a variety of other related subjects. Maria G. Rewakowicz is affiliated with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies of the University of Washington. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.