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Eva Hoffman

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Eva Hoffman Information
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Eva Wydra Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born as Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Kraków, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in Ukraine. When she was an adolescent, her family immigrated to Canada in 1959 and her named...


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Eva Hoffman: parsing the rhetoric of memory.(interview)(Interview)
01/19/2004: 2,132 words, approx. 7 pages
Eva Hoffman opens her new book--After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust--by contemplating a paradox. Writing about the Holocaust, she notes: "as this immense catastrophe recedes from us in time, our preoccupation with it seems only to increase." Even...
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Lost in Nostalgia: the autobiographies of Eva Hoffman and Richard Rodriguez.(Critical Essay)
06/22/2001: 6,077 words, approx. 20 pages
In "The Plural Self: The Politicization of Memory and Form in Three American Ethnic Autobiographies," in which she compares N. Scott Momaday's The Names, Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, and Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez concludes,...
 


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Critical Essay by Danuta Zadworna Fjellestad
6,375 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Fjellestad explores the marginalization of Central European American literature by focusing on how Hoffman's Lost in Translation portrays the immigrant writer's experience.
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Critical Essay by Sarah Phillips Casteel
6,270 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Casteel evaluates how Hoffman portrays the social and physical landscapes of Canada in Lost in Translation.
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Critical Essay by William A. Proefriedt
5,946 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Proefriedt examines the educational aspects of the immigrant experience, focusing on the work of Hoffman, Mary Antin, and Richard Wright.
 


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