RT Journal Article
T1 ‘A Feast for the [Cold-War] Imagination’: Liminal Eastern Europe in the Writings of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth
A1 Bryla, Martyna Marika
K1 Europa oriental
AB Inspired by the well-established trope of Eastern Europe’s in-betweenness, this article uses the notion of liminality to explore the images of Eastern Europe during theCold War in the works of three American authors: John Updike, Joyce Carol Oatesand Philip Roth. Not only do these works map Eastern Europe as liminal in theimagological sense of the term, that is, as oscillating between competing narrativesof otherness and familiarity; empathy and hostility; the East and the West, but alsothe very experience of venturing behind the Iron Curtain is charged with potentiality:the Eastern-European cityscape becomes the contact zone between cultures and thelocus of self-discovery for the American characters. The resultant imaginative geography is at once contemporary and allochronic; political and personal, as it reiteratesthe Cold War balance of power while at the same time recycling existing representations of the area and reflecting the authors’ sensibilities.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24372
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24372
LA eng
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 mar 2026