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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820056903321

Autore

Marinova Margarita

Titolo

Transnational Russian-American travel writing / / Margarita D. Marinova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-65939-0

1-283-46024-6

9786613460240

1-136-65940-4

0-203-80703-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in travel writing ; ; 5

Disciplina

810.9/32

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

Travelers' writings, Russian - History and criticism

Comparative literature - American and Russian

Comparative literature - Russian and American

Russians - United States - History

Travel writing - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Russia and America in Travel Writing Between 1865 and 1905: Historical Background and Theoretical Concerns; 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 Fruits of Travel: Russians and Americans View Each Other Through Tales of Ethnic Passing in Korolenko's Bez Iazyka and Abraham Cahan's "Theodore and Martha" and The White Terror and the RedConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 published writings, archival materials, and personal correspondence of well or less known travelers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and artistic predilections: from the quintessential American Mark Twain to the Russian-Jewish ethnographer and revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz;