"Are Louis Adamic's novels Slovene novels?"

Cooper, Henry R. (author)

The Slovene-American author Louis Adamic has in his corpus a few works that we might readily consider to be novels. Although they were written in English, might we also consider them to be "Slovene novels" on the basis of their content or other features? Not just for Slovene or even Slavic literatures is the question of the native son operating in an alien literary environment a challenging and even burning one.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovene literature, Slovene novel, American literature, American novel, immigrant literature, autobiographical novel, American Slovenes, Sloveness, literature in Engish, hybrid prose, L. Adamic
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2003
• Number of pages: Str. 617-626
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165093
• UDC: 821.111(73=163.6).09:821.163.6.09
• COBISS.SI-ID: 71986274
• Publication date in RUL: 22.11.2024

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Slovenski roman
• Editors: Miran Hladnik, Gregor Kocijan
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Center za slovenščino kot drugi/tuji jezik pri Oddelku za slovenistiko Filozofske fakultete
• Year: 2003
• ISBN: 961-237-058-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 125833472
• Collection title: Obdobja
• Collection numbering: 21
• Collection ISSN: 1408-211X

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Literarni opus slovensko-ameriškega pisatelja Louisa Adamiča vključuje nekaj del, ki bi jih lahko imeli za romane. Čeprav so bili napisani v angleščini, se zastavlja vprašanje, ali bi jih na osnovi njihove vsebine ali kakšnih drugih lastnosti lahko obravnavali kot "slovenske romane". Vprašanje pisatelja, ki ustvarja v tujem literarnem okolju, je zapleteno in žgoče ne le v slovenski ali slovanskih literaturah.

• Keywords: slovenska književnost, slovenski roman, ameriška književnost, ameriški roman, izseljenska književnost, književnost v angleščini, ameriški Slovenci, slovenstvo, avtobiografski romani, hibridna proza, literarne študije, L. Adamič