Americans Experience Russia (Routledge Studies In Cultural History)

Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their 'Russian experience, ' this volume closely analyzes these texts, locates them in their sociopolitical context, and gauges how their producers' profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality.

• • Author: Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 10, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 244 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138731781
• • ISBN-13: 9781138731783