Stanislav Kolar

stanislav kolar

University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

PhD, professor

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Research Interests:

  • history of American literature
  • literary theory
  • ethnic literatures
  • American studies
  • American Jewish literature
  • American alternative culture

Selected bibliography:

Articles:

  • Ethnicity and Environmental (In)Justice in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart and Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues. Kopecký P., Beneš J. Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2024, pp. 13–35.
  • Possessed by Postmemory: Thane Rosenbaum’s Elijah Visible. Nordic Journal of English Studies, no. 20 (1), 2021, pp. 103–126.
  • Ordinary Stories in Extraordinary Times: Marcie Hershman’s Tales of the Master Race. American and British Studies Annual, no. 13 (13), 2020, pp. 108–118.
  • The Holocaust Viewed by the Second and the Third Generation in American Literature (lecture), seminars on Tan and Kingston. 2017.
  • Magical realism and allegory in Joseph Skibell's A Blessing on the Moon 43(2) (2017) Brno Studies in English: 95-110.
  • "Fictionalizing the Holocaust:: The 2nd and 3rd Generation Responses to the Genocide." European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference. Constanta: European Association for American Studies, Ovidius University, Constanta. 2016.
  • "One Must Not Be a Greenhorn?": The Process of Assimilation in Abraham Cahan's Fiction". Assimilation? A Good or Bad Word?: Assimilation ? A Good or Bad Word?: proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium of American Studies: June 18-19, 2015. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2016: 144-157.
  • "Traveling to Europe to (Re)Discover Jewish Identity." SILSE 2015 - 4rd International Conference of English and American Studies: Silesian Studies in English 2015. Opava: Silesian University in Opava, 2016: 140-150.
  • "Philip Roth and Czechoslovakia." Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture 25 (2015): 6-21.
  • America as the Promised Land?: Representation of Immigration in Selected Works of American Literature [Workshop]. Ostrava, Česká republika. 2015.
  • "The Spiritual Transformation of Jewish Women in the Fiction of Four Jewish American Women Writers." Growing Up a Woman. The Private/Public Divide in the Narratives of Female Development. 1. vyd. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015: 120-140.
  • A Great Loss in the Field of American Studies. Ostrava Journal of English Philology 7 (2015): 86-87.
  • "Possessed by Postmemory: Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah Visible." Trauma and Memory: the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture. Portsmouth: University of Portsmouth. 2013.