Where Is My Homeland?: The Pilgrimage of Marcela Sulak

Abstract

This essay examines the literary output of Marcela Sulak, a Texas‑born Czech poet and academic now living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. There is a focus not only on her recently published memoir, but on her poetry and her translations of two Czech classics (Mácha and Erben) into English. The primary interest of the essay is in exploring her search for identity, not only geographically, but also spiritually. Increased attention is paid to those aspects of her life and work connected with the Czech nation, history, culture and language.