Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Agnieszka Gutthy -- Twentieth century Russian literature in exile / Mabel Greta Velis Blinova -- Language and memory in Nabokov's "Revolution" / Kristin Reed -- Andrei Sinyavsky, wisdom and exile / Carolyn Kraus -- Catcher in the rye: Georgy Efron's Tashkent exile / Olga Zaslavsky -- Polish literature in the Great Emigration of 1830: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz S�owacki, and Zygmunt Krasi�nski / Fernando Presa Gonz�alez -- Living on the margins and loving it: Gombrowicz and exile / Klara Lutsky -- Still life: the anti-nostalgia of Adam Zagajewski / Karen Bishop -- Kundera's reception in the West / Klara Lutsky -- Vor(text)ual time: the agency of being-in-time and Milan Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being / Susanlynne Beckwith -- Open wounds, the phenomenology of exile and the management of pain: Dubravka Ugre�si�c's The ministry of pain / Vedrana Velickovic -- Grief can only be written in one's mother tongue: exile and identity in the work of David Albahari / Tatjana Aleksi�c -- Klaus Mann: The teufelskind doubly exiled / Timothy Nixon -- Inescapable colonization: Norman Manea's eternal exile / Mihai M�indra.

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