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



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Autore: Marinova Margarita Visualizza persona
Titolo: Transnational Russian-American travel writing / / Margarita D. Marinova Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/32
Soggetto topico: 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
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;
Titolo autorizzato: Transnational Russian-American travel writing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-65939-0
1-283-46024-6
9786613460240
1-136-65940-4
0-203-80703-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790450103321
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Serie: Routledge research in travel writing ; ; 5.