Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

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

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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

Info autore

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

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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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Margarita Marinova, Marinova Margarita
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367865306
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86530-6
• Pagine: 190
• Serie: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Eastern Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet