The American Brodsky: A Research Overview

Abstract

Abstract A Russian-American poet and essayist, a Nobel laureate, Joseph Brodsky is hardly present on the map of American studies. The following overview attempts to provide materials for remedying this oversight. After all, though the overwhelming majority of Brodsky scholars are Slavists, valuable work on Brodsky in an American context has been done, and a substantial part of it has been published in English. After a short biographical excursion, the materials are assembled according to the following categories: “Brodsky in America,” “Brodsky and American Literature,” “Brodsky as an American Poet,” and “Brodsky's Self-Translations into English.” In 2016, twenty years after his death in New York, the time seems ripe for a reconsideration.