anything, and addresses complex ethnic relations and political dilemmas that were part of the characters’ everyday life. While history is the normative frame of reference in the novel, a sense of home and the awareness of its traumatic loss are some of the centrifugal forces of the story, which determine the characters’ attitudes. They evoke the idea of uprootedness (Weil) and nostalgic memory (Boym), which will be analyzed as an essential part of immigrant narratives.
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, and the truth of the memory resides in the affects it provokes and sustains. Opposing the static authority of the past and any fixed notion of the self, Hemon understands the past as a cultural practice deposited in bodies and rituals, as a home apparently beyond reach to which the migrant reconnects through the resources of the imagination.
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{"title":"Imitation, Mimicry, and the Performance of Americanness in Nabokov’s Pnin","authors":"Annika M. Schadewaldt","doi":"10.4000/ejas.21164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"51 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Backward, Looking Forward: An Interview with John Z. Guzlowski","authors":"Izabella Kimak","doi":"10.4000/ejas.21193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary","authors":"Martyna Bryla","doi":"10.4000/ejas.20991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.20991","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Image of Central European Immigrant in Popular Fiction and Its Adaptations: A Case Study of the Detective Murdoch/Murdoch Mysteries Series","authors":"Biljana Oklopčić","doi":"10.4000/ejas.20949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.20949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"71 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction. Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America","authors":"Izabella Kimak, Mateusz Świetlicki","doi":"10.4000/ejas.20906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.20906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"49 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Nostalgia to locus amoenus: Polish Migrants’ Memoirs in Canada and the Idea of Home, Identity, and Belonging","authors":"Dagmara Drewniak","doi":"10.4000/ejas.20914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.20914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"244 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traumatic Peregrinations: Intergenerational Memory and Migration in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland","authors":"Anastasia Ulanowicz","doi":"10.4000/ejas.21099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"464 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrating Literatures: Bulgaria in the American Imaginary","authors":"Alexandra Glavanakova","doi":"10.4000/ejas.21133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54031,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of American Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}