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Holmgren, Beth. 2003. America, America: scouting the routes of translation. In Stephan, Halina, ed. Living in translation: Polish writers in America (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 38). Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 29–43.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
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Target language

Abstract

This essay traces the adaptive patterns of post-war émigré artists attempting to produce and promote their work in the United States. Better educated and psychologically equipped to lead a bicultural life abroad than preceding waves of Polish immigrants to America, these artists nonetheless confronted, on the one hand, the creative strictures and social marginalization of the American academy and, on the other, the profesional instability and facile fashion-consciousness of American commercial culture. The émigré artist's success has depended on his or her knowledgeable and willing manipulation of the market strategies of American culture - of 'proven' artistic roles, topics, and styles.
Source : Abstract in book