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 - En la literatura
K1 Guerra Fría - En la literatura
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 the Cold War in the works of three American authors: John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth. Not only do these works map Eastern Europe as liminal in the imagological sense of the term, that is, as oscillating between competing narratives of otherness and familiarity; empathy and hostility; the East and the West, but also the very experience of venturing behind the Iron Curtain is charged with potentiality: the Eastern-European cityscape becomes the contact zone between cultures and the locus of self-discovery for the American characters. The resultant imaginative geography is at once contemporary and allochronic; political and personal, as it reiterates the 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
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36872
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36872
LA eng
NO Bryla, Martyna. “‘A Feast for the [Cold-War] Imagination’: Liminal Eastern Europe in the Writings of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth.” European Review 30.4 (2022): 478–489. Web.
NO Open access funding: Universidad de Málaga
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026