Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature

ISBN-13: 9781803740256 / Angielski

Andrea Hammel; Laima Vince

Opis

This book analyzes literary works by North American Jewish and Lithuanian writers through the lenses of postmemory, cultural memory and trauma theory. The writers, descendants of the Lithuanian survivors of World War II, pass along the trauma narratives of their families and speak over the silence of decades.

O autorze

Dr. Laima Vinc Sruoginis earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, and a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in Literature, a PEN Translation Fund grant, an Academy of American Poets Award, and Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies book and dissertation awards, among other honors. Writing under the name Laima Vinc , she has published over twenty books in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Southern Maine.