This pioneering publication is the 1st to provide the postwar phenomenon of the recent York crew of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case examine for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It makes a speciality of the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections either with their state of foundation and their followed homelands, underscoring the group’s position within the shaping of the cultural and literary picture of Ukraine out of the country. Displacements, pressured or voluntary, engender states of alterity, states of residing in-between, dwelling within the interstices of other cultures and various linguistic realities. The poetry of the founding individuals of the hot York team displays those states admirably. The poets accredited their exilic without grudges and nurtured the hyperlink with their fatherland through texts written within the mom tongue. This account of the group’s output and legacy will entice all these desirous to discover the poetry of East eu international locations and to these attracted to higher cultural contexts for the improvement of eu modernisms.
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