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THE AMERICAN LABORATORY OF ANNA FRAJLICH

Focusing Laboratorium [‘A Laboratory’] by Anna Frajlich, the paper presents the dialectics of stability and changeability inscribed in this prose. The laboratory is interpreted here as a metaphor of a literary workshop as well as a set of circumstances in which one may experiment both in an artistic and existential way. The article discusses the meaning of the family and the generational community in relation to existential conditions of emigration. It reveals the ways the poet’s identity is refined, so that her Jewish, Polish and American experience might be integrated with one another. Also, it demonstrates the process of acculturation in the United States illustrated by the example of the New York City urban space and shows one of its aspects – coming out of emigrant invisibility.