Search Results for Russian American literature

... on in the Russian American immigrant literature that has sprung up since the turn of the millennium. The city even has its own New World simulacrum in New York’s “Little Odessa” neighborhood. This article investigates the impact of the “Odessa Text” on the work of two Odessa-born US authors, the poet Ilya Kaminsky...

... – 15 . Rovner Adam . 2006 . “ So Easily Assimilated: The New Immigrant Chic .” AJS Review 30 , no. 2 : 313 – 24 . Ryan Karen . 2011 . “ Failures of Domesticity in Contemporary Russian-American Literature: Vapnyar, Krasikov, Ulinich, and Reyn .” Transcultural 1 , no. 4...

... .” American Affairs 1 , no. 4 : 46 – 64 . Furman Yelena . 2011 . “ Hybrid Selves, Hybrid Texts: Embracing the Hyphen in Russian-American Fiction .” The Slavic and East European Journal 55 , no. 1 : 19 – 37 . Giles Paul . 2011 . The Global Remapping of American Literature...

...Anna Katsnelson This article argues that there are two major strains of transnationalism in works by Russian-speaking North American writers David Bezmozgis, Ellen Litman, and Gary Shteyngart. Bezmozgis and Litman focus on localism, and their short story collections Natasha (2003) and The Last...

... of Western modernist literatures (particularly the French and Anglo American) and the scholarship on them. In Search of Russian Modernism draws its main conceptual inspirations from the new modernist studies championed by the journal Modernism/modernity and Pierre Bourdieu’s pioneering analyses...

... off, it injures young Russian American immigrant Vlad, leaving him permanently paralyzed. The image of paralysis is a main trope in postcommunist literature, which often emphasizes how aphasia, inertia, or indifference afflicts postsocialist generations ( Oushakine 2000) . Another representation...

.... Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2011. Maxwell, William. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars. New York: Columbia UP, 1999. Mickenberg, Julia. Learning From the Left: Children’s...

... American student, James Steele Mackaye (1842-1894), who, along with his own students and colleagues in the United States, developed and significantly added to Delsarte’s theory and practice (see Ruyter). Preston identifies Delsarte as “a French performance theorist” and writes that “benefitting...

... American business interests in the country; the propagandistic drive of the Russian crew and the Mexican advisers to whitewash the still profound inequities of 1930s Mexico—Porter’s strategy for authorizing her own version of the Mexican scene against these agents of distortion deserves a closer look...

... moments—James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), Vladi- mir Nabokov’s Lolita (1958), Luis Martín-Santos’s Time of Silence (1961), and Victor Erofeev’s Russian Beauty (1990)—which allows her to engage a wider comparative scope than studies of literary censorship that have tended to focus on Anglo American...

... an agreement with the idea they have of their own destinies” (113). Lucky survivors of the Holocaust, they speak in Yiddish, English, Polish and Russian, searching for new starts, for a sense of community. By contrast, Borinsky explores Cuban Americans through their links to what the critic Gustavo...

...-88. Lipovetsky, Mark. “The New Russian as a Cultural Myth.” Russian Review 62.1 (2003): 54-79. Meyer, Philipp. American Rust. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009. Mizruchi, Susan. The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998...

.... In this way, Shamlu illustrates how literary canons construct historical records to promote certain ideological interests, and in doing so he highlights a blind spot within theories of literary production that separate art from its social context (similarly, in the context of American literature John...

..., Mark. “‘Our Country’s Black and White Past’: Film and the Figures of History in Frank O’Hara.” American Literature 71.1 (1999). 57-92. Gooch, Brad. City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Heimann, Paula. “Certain Functions of Introjection...

... in the collision of Russian and American characters in her fiction (especially in the Paris she describes there) she addresses two kinds of in- terrogativity: the worldly, secular Russian questioning embodied by Kralin (who spends a good deal of time in Paris) contrasts with the ingenuous, spiritually...

...,” which aired on May 2, 2015, threads together some of the narrative surrounding the eight weeks of occupation, including a brief reference to the diary and its 2008 film adaptation. Her piece focuses especially on the grown children of rape survivors and Russian soldiers who want to tell the stories...

... and labels; each time we move we get a new set of luggage cheques . . . let us have one photo printed on the right shoulder” (Pound 107). 6. McKay describes his time in Russia, working more with Russian com- munists than the American organization, in A Long Way from Home. His book Negroes in America...

... do not extend beyond Euro-American empires’ cultural and linguistic mapping. 1 Lao She, meanwhile, is canonized as a representative of modern Chinese literature, in part due to his title “People’s Artist” in the government’s official narrative. 2 David Wang (1992 : 119) and others first found...

... —in his German-American history. It will be claimed that the invocation by the reviewer of Bernanos—on the basis of what may be no more than Sollors’s decorative use of his name—as structuring presence of a whole swathe of French literature in the twentieth century, has led us astray from...

... the revolutionary alliance as signified by the Communist Party and brings him close to the Russian communists. The “one-worldness” of revolution is negated on the basis of jazz’s distinctiveness as “my” African American music, but this same music overrides cultural and political differences, compelling an alternate...