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The book examines the works of authors - e. g. Katja Petrowskaja, Alex Epstein, Alona Kimhi, Gary Shteyngart and Lara Vapnyar - who, after immigration from post-Soviet countries, created fiction in the language of their host countries (Germany, Israel, United States). Considering the works of these writers, the study focuses on the elements of cultural identity and analyzes ways of transmitting the cultural codes of the writer's native culture to the reader who was raised in another culture. Unl
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sergii Gurbych
- Publisher
- Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783825349059
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Fiction, Linguistics, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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