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035			_a(DE-B1597)633098
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082	0	4	_a818/.603 _qOCoLC _223/eng/20220921
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aShrayer, Maxim D. _eautore
245	1	0	_aImmigrant Baggage : _bMorticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile / _cMaxim D. Shrayer.
264		1	_aBoston, MA : _bAcademic Studies Press, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a1 online resource (146 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface: Translingual Adventures -- _tRibs of Eden -- _tRomance with a Mortician -- _tIn the Net of Composer N. -- _tOnly One Day in Venice -- _tYelets Women’s High School -- _tA Return to Kafka -- _tAcknowledgements -- _tIndex of Names and Places
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aNamed one of 12 of the Best Jewish Books of the Year by the Jewish Telegraph Agency, New York Jewish Week, & Jerusalem Post2023 International Book Awards Finalist in the Humor/Comedy/Satire CategoryFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him-Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer’s autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life’s misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history’s black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the émigré protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book’s six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist’s imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd-ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery-and sustained by family love and faith in art’s transcendence.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aImmigrants _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish. _2bisacsh
653			_aAmerican:literature.
653			_aJewish.
653			_aKafka.
653			_aRussian.
653			_aSoviet-era.
653			_aimmigrant.
653			_amemoirs.
653			_atravels.
653			_aémigré.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699997
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644699997
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644699997/original
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