TODD PATRICK ARMSTRONG is Associate Professor of Russian at Grinnel College in Iowa. He directed an exchange programme at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1999 and has contributed to a companion guide to the English translation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword.

• General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Quests for Identity in Modern Central and East European Literature; T.P.Armstrong Demystifying High Culture? 'Young' Ukrainian Poetry and Prose in the 1990s; M.Pavlyshyn The Problem of the Definitive Literary Text and Political Censorship; L.Onyshkevich Transcarpathian Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century; L.Babotova Poetry and Politics: The New Wave and György Petri; G.Gömöri Czeslaw Milosz's Zdobycie wladzy : The Structure of the Polish Dilemma; T.P.Armstrong Nationality in Recent Polish Émigré Drama; H.Stephan To Escape From History One Day: Slawomir Mrozek's On Foot, Portrait , and Love in the Crimea; M.Sugiera Witold Gombrowicz's Ludic Theatre; D.A.Kuprel The Poetic Messages of Serbian Women Writers in Diaspora; J.Milojkovic-Djuric Post-modernist Culture and the War; D.Oraic-Tolic Index

TODD PATRICK ARMSTRONG is Associate Professor of Russian at Grinnel College in Iowa. He directed an exchange programme at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1999 and has contributed to a companion guide to the English translation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword.

• General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Quests for Identity in Modern Central and East European Literature; T.P.Armstrong Demystifying High Culture? 'Young' Ukrainian Poetry and Prose in the 1990s; M.Pavlyshyn The Problem of the Definitive Literary Text and Political Censorship; L.Onyshkevich Transcarpathian Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century; L.Babotova Poetry and Politics: The New Wave and György Petri; G.Gömöri Czeslaw Milosz's Zdobycie wladzy : The Structure of the Polish Dilemma; T.P.Armstrong Nationality in Recent Polish Émigré Drama; H.Stephan To Escape From History One Day: Slawomir Mrozek's On Foot, Portrait , and Love in the Crimea; M.Sugiera Witold Gombrowicz's Ludic Theatre; D.A.Kuprel The Poetic Messages of Serbian Women Writers in Diaspora; J.Milojkovic-Djuric Post-modernist Culture and the War; D.Oraic-Tolic Index

TODD PATRICK ARMSTRONG is Associate Professor of Russian at Grinnel College in Iowa. He directed an exchange programme at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1999 and has contributed to a companion guide to the English translation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire and Sword.

• General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Quests for Identity in Modern Central and East European Literature; T.P.Armstrong Demystifying High Culture? 'Young' Ukrainian Poetry and Prose in the 1990s; M.Pavlyshyn The Problem of the Definitive Literary Text and Political Censorship; L.Onyshkevich Transcarpathian Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century; L.Babotova Poetry and Politics: The New Wave and György Petri; G.Gömöri Czeslaw Milosz's Zdobycie wladzy : The Structure of the Polish Dilemma; T.P.Armstrong Nationality in Recent Polish Émigré Drama; H.Stephan To Escape From History One Day: Slawomir Mrozek's On Foot, Portrait , and Love in the Crimea; M.Sugiera Witold Gombrowicz's Ludic Theatre; D.A.Kuprel The Poetic Messages of Serbian Women Writers in Diaspora; J.Milojkovic-Djuric Post-modernist Culture and the War; D.Oraic-Tolic Index