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‘A Feast for the [Cold-War] Imagination’: Liminal Eastern Europe in the Writings of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth
Bryla, Martyna Marika
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-06)
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: ... -
‘A Feast for the [Cold-War] Imagination’: Liminal Eastern Europe in the Writings of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
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 ... -
Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Open Edition Journals, 2023)
In the American Cold-War imaginary, the representation of Eastern Europe was strongly influenced by male intellectuals and writers from the region, whose works were celebrated in the US not only for their artistic merits ... -
Orientation towards otherness in the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario; Bryla, Martyna Marika (Palgrave Communications, 2018)
This paper addresses current narratives on refugees and Muslim others within the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe. Drawing on Sara Ahmed and others, it sets out to better comprehend what lies behind European ... -
Postdependent Eastern Europe: Critical Avenues and Literary Representations.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2020)
Is Eastern Europe postcolonial? This question has animated scholarly debate in the region and beyond for two decades, and while there is no conclusive answer to it, postcolonial theory has been used to illuminate Eastern ... -
Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEAN, 2022)
This essay analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018) as an inquiry into the formative narratives of the American identity—the American Dream and self-making—through the story of a hedge-fund manager, Barry, who abandons ... -
Tracking the transnational trickster: Gary Shteyngart and his protagonists
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Nordic Association of English Studies, 2018-12-31)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze Gary Shteyngart’s protagonists in the light of his works, particularly his debut work, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002) and his memoir, Little Failure (2014). Drawing on the ... -
Under Bech's eyes: emotional geographies of the European East in John Updike's short stories.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)
John Updike’s short stories about Henry Bech’s diplomatic adventures in the European East have been analysed mainly in the context of the Cold-War balance of power and Updike’s ambivalent attitude to communist Russia. While ... -
Understanding the Other Europe: Philip Roth’s Writings on Prague.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
The aim of this essay is to explore the representation and significance of post-war Prague in the works of one of the finest contemporary American authors, Philip Roth. Kafka’s hometown is the locale ... -
Weeding out the Roots? Migrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Polish-British Fiction
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Universidad Complutense, 2020)
Poles are one of the largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have migrated to the UK, hoping ... -
Writing Prague: Philip Roth's and John Updike's Literary Takes on the Czech Capital.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Purdue University Press, 2020)
In this essay, a productive critical dialogue is established between Philip Roth’s and John Updike’s representations of Prague under communism in The Prague Orgy (1985) and “Bech in Czech” (1987). Focusing on two central ...