Reading John Steinbeck in Eastern Europe
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- ISBN 9780761856252
- Weight: 222g
- Dimensions: 155 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2011
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Reading John Steinbeck in Eastern Europe explores the injustice toward Steinbeck's works in Eastern European countries in the period of communist regimes. Assessed through an ideological lens, their value was in their usefulness to the oppressive social and political mindset, which they undoubtedly served-not only The Grapes of Wrath, with its agenda of social solutions, but also works that clearly indicate that Steinbeck was venturing into new themes and forms. By taking up various avenues of approach and moving adroitly between the study of Steinbeck criticism, translations, literary influences, textual analyses of specific works and various theoretical questions-while illuminating that the most compelling rationale for reading Steinbeck's works is their universal relevance, not the presence or lack of ideological structures in them-Reading John Steinbeck in Eastern Europe is an interesting record of past perceptions, stereotypes and myths, and a testament to a new era.
Danica Cerce is an assistant professor of literature in English at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her Steinbeck publications include Pripovedni?tvo Johna Steinbecka (The Narrative Prose of John Steinbeck), numerous articles in academic journals, book chapters, and translations into Slovene. Her other research areas are Australian literature of social realism, contemporary Australian Indigenous literature, and Slovene literature.
