Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York : : America and Americans in Russian Literary Perception / / Milla Fedorova.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fedorova, Milla,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 p.)

Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of America as the Other World at the moment of transition from the Russian to the Soviet version. The material on which Milla Fedorova bases her study comprises a curious phenomenon of the waning nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—pilgrimages to America by prominent Russian writers who then created travelogues. The writers' missions usually consisted of two parts: the physical journey, which most of the writers considered as ideologically significant, and the literary fruit of the pilgrimages.Until now, the American travelogue has not been recognized and studied as a particular kind of narration with its own canons. Arguing that the primary cultural model for Russian writers' journey to America is Dante's descent into Hell, Federova ultimately reveals how America is represented as the country of "dead souls" where objects and machines have exchanged places with people, where relations between the living and the dead are inverted.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Citation -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I BOLSHEVIKS IN NEW YORK -- I. Pre-Revolutionary Discoveries of America -- 2. Post-Revolutionary Columbuses -- 3. Automobile Journeys of the 1930s -- PART II THE AMERICAN TEXT OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE -- 4. Recurrent Subtexts and Motifs in American Travelogues -- PART III YANKEES IN PETROGRAD -- 5. Reverse American Travelogues -- CONCLUSION From Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca -- Appendix 1 Lexical and Grammatical Neologisms in Pilniak's OK -- Appendix 2 The Transatlantic Journey -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index