Excerpt from <i>Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing</i>
Margarita Marinova’s text is excerpted from her new work <em>Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing</em>. The work’s purpose is to examine “the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachmen...
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| description | Margarita Marinova’s text is excerpted from her new work <em>Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing</em>. The work’s purpose is to examine “the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments” found in a group of writings about encounters between Russians and Americans between 1865 and the Russian Revolution of 1905. (These encounters provide a prelude to the more famous American travelogue of 1930s Soviet satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, <em>Odnoetazhnaia Amerika</em> [Single-Storied America].) Contrasting viewpoints on race and ethnicity form an important element of Marinova’s corpus, and one fine example is the extract shown here, which treats the encounter of Russian-Jewish revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz (Tan) with a Black American student working as a Pullman porter, and the Russian’s unwittingly humorous incapacity to view him outside of stereotypes (in a fashion that anticipates the character of the mother in Shirley Jackson’s mordant short story “After You, My Dear Alphonse”). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d6b3307cfcb3409aac7378dce5fb60732022-12-21T19:24:58ZengeScholarship Publishing, University of CaliforniaJournal of Transnational American Studies1940-07642012-06-014110.5070/T841012812ark:13030/qt53c3t83tExcerpt from <i>Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing</i>Margarita D. Marinova0Christopher Newport UniversityMargarita Marinova’s text is excerpted from her new work <em>Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing</em>. The work’s purpose is to examine “the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments” found in a group of writings about encounters between Russians and Americans between 1865 and the Russian Revolution of 1905. (These encounters provide a prelude to the more famous American travelogue of 1930s Soviet satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, <em>Odnoetazhnaia Amerika</em> [Single-Storied America].) Contrasting viewpoints on race and ethnicity form an important element of Marinova’s corpus, and one fine example is the extract shown here, which treats the encounter of Russian-Jewish revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz (Tan) with a Black American student working as a Pullman porter, and the Russian’s unwittingly humorous incapacity to view him outside of stereotypes (in a fashion that anticipates the character of the mother in Shirley Jackson’s mordant short story “After You, My Dear Alphonse”).http://escholarship.org/uc/item/53c3t83trussian-americantravel writingtransnationalvladimir bogorazamerican studies |
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