Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367865306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Margarita Marinova

Opis

In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together publish

Recenzje

"Marinova's research brings together a variety of Russian and American voices from this period and provides a thoughtful analysis of their convergences, similarities, differences, and 'mimetic capital'... Her work is an important step in understanding both historical and contemporary Russian and American attitudes towards each other." - Slavic and East European Journal

Spis treści

Contents  List of Figures  Acknowledgments  Introduction  1: Russian Tourists View Postbellum America  2: "Innocent" Encounters with Russia, or Americans at Play  3: Russian "Marvels" and American "Originals." The View of Russia and America During the Last Two Decades of the Nineteenth Century  4: The Gifts of Travel: Tales of Passing of the Ethnic Russian in America: Vladimir Korolenko’s Bez Iazyka and Abraham Cahan’s "Theodore and Martha" and The White Terror and the Red  Conclusion  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Margarita Marinova is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.