{"pk":42564,"title":"Excerpt from \nTransnational Russian-American Travel Writing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Margarita Marinova’s text is excerpted from her new work \nTransnational Russian-American Travel Writing\n. The work’s purpose is to examine “the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments” found in a group of writings about encounters between Russians and Americans between 1865 and the Russian Revolution of 1905. (These encounters provide a prelude to the more famous American travelogue of 1930s Soviet satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, \nOdnoetazhnaia Amerika\n [Single-Storied America].) Contrasting viewpoints on race and ethnicity form an important element of Marinova’s corpus, and one fine example is the extract shown here, which treats the encounter of Russian-Jewish revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz (Tan) with a Black American student working as a Pullman porter, and the Russian’s unwittingly humorous incapacity to view him outside of stereotypes (in a fashion that anticipates the character of the mother in Shirley Jackson’s mordant short story “After You, My Dear Alphonse”).","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Russian-American"},{"word":"Travel Writing"},{"word":"Transnational"},{"word":"Vladimir Bogoraz"},{"word":"American Studies"}],"section":"Forward","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53c3t83t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Margarita","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Marinova","name_suffix":"","institution":"Christopher Newport University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-06-19T05:22:03+08:00","date_accepted":"2012-06-19T05:22:03+08:00","date_published":"2012-06-21T15:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/42564/galley/31773/download/"}]}