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Paulauskienė Aušra |
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Titolo |
Lost and found [[electronic resource] ] : the discovery of Lithuania in American fiction / / Aušra Paulauskienė |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-26560-1 |
9786612265600 |
94-012-0491-8 |
1-4356-1217-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Collana |
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On the boundary of two worlds ; ; 10 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
Lithuania In literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Neither Russians nor Lithuanians but Lithuanian Jews -- The Narrative of Abraham Cahan’s Identity -- Undiscovered Jewish-American Writers from Lithuania: Ezra Brudno and Goldie Stone -- An Unknown Novel about Lithuanians: Margaret Seebach’s That Man Donaleitis (sic) -- Lithuanian Voices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Aušra Paulauskienė’s book Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction targets American as well as European scholars in the fields of literature, ethnic studies and immigration. The author discovers obscure texts on Lithuania and alerts Western and Eastern academia to their significance as well as the reasons for their neglect. For the first time, Abraham Cahan’s autobiography The Education of Abraham Cahan and Ezra Brudno’s autobiographical novel The Fugitive receive an extensive coverage, while Goldie Stone’s My Caravan of Years and Margaret Seebach’s That Man Donaleitis (sic) receive their first scholarly consideration ever. The author argues that misrepresentations, misattributions and exclusions of Lithuanian legacy in the U.S. were produced by major political events of the twentieth |
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