Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction. Grażyna J. Kozaczka

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      Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction

      Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

       Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk

      Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross

      Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski

      Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, by Jonathan Huener

      The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

      The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made, by Mary Patrice Erdmans

      Testaments: Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile, by Danuta Mostwin

      The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935, by Eva Plach

      Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Jerzy Andrzejewski

      The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939, by Sheila Skaff

      Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939, by Neal Pease

      The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy, edited by M. B. B. Biskupski, James S. Pula, and Piotr J. Wróbel

      The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924, by Brian McCook

      Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki, by Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki

      Taking Liberties: Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786–1989, by Halina Filipowicz

      The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland, by Joanna Mishtal

      Marta, by Eliza Orzeszkowa, translated by Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn and Stephanie Kraft, with an introduction by Grażyna J. Kozaczka

      Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction, by Grażyna J. Kozaczka

      Series Advisory Board

      M. B. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University

      Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University

      Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior

      Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan

      Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western University

      Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University (ret.)

      Padraic Kenney, Indiana University

      John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

      Ewa Morawska, University of Essex

      Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

      Brian Porter-Szûcs, University of Michigan

      James S. Pula, Purdue University Northwest

      Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg

      Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University

      Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University

      Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction

      Grażyna J. Kozaczka

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      Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2339-4

      Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4644-7

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.

      The Polish and Polish-American Studies Series is made possible by:

      The Polish American Historical Association,

      The Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut,

      The Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professorship in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and

      The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

      Support is also provided by the following individuals:

      Thomas Duszak (Benefactor)

      George Bobinski (Contributor)

      Alfred Bialobrzeski (Friend)

      William Galush (Friend)

      Col. John A. and Pauline A. Garstka (Friend)

      Jonathan Huener (Friend)

      Grażyna Kozaczka (Friend)

      Neal Pease (Friend)

      Mary Jane Urbanowicz (Friend)

      Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (Friend)

      Literature, unlike history, political theory, and anthropology, has the ability to both transform and to perform the work of cultural awakening.

      —Rani Neutill

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Series Editor’s Preface

       Preface and Acknowledgments

       Guide to Pronunciation

       Introduction. Polish American Women

       A Cultural and Literary Construct

       1. Faces of Resistance

       Monica Krawczyk’s Immigrant Women

       2. At Midcentury

       Polish Americans Writing Their Identity

       3. Suzanne Strempek Shea’s Gendered Ethnicity in the 1970s and 1980s