The monograph analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the roles it plays in identity construction and in the adjustment of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on post-immigrant and exile fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon.
Marta Koval is Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdansk. Her research interests include postwar American fiction, historical novel in the late 20th–early 21st centuries, exile fiction, American ethnic fiction, memory studies, and transcultural studies.