A Plurilin­gual Analy­sis of Four Russ­ian-Amer­i­can Auto­bi­ogra­phies: Cournos, Nabokov, Berbero­va, Shteyn­gart
Among the many exam­ples of Russ­ian-Amer­i­can émi­gré lit­er­a­ture, a num­ber of less known authors moved to the USA, fol­low­ing their pre­de­ces­sors’ transna­tion­al and plurilin­gual expe­ri­ences. The bilin­gual (and some­times trilin­gual) expres­sions in their works writ­ten in Eng­lish invite a con­trastive analy­sis of their tran­si­tion from their source lan­guage, Russ­ian, to their tar­get lan­guage, Eng­lish. This book explores the lin­guis­tic struc­ture of the auto­bi­ogra­phies of four Russ­ian-Amer­i­can writ­ers (Cournos, Nabokov, Berbero­va and Shteyn­gart) bring­ing into focus the lin­guis­tic „geol­o­gy“ of their texts, as they record their pas­sage from a Russ­ian world to an Eng­lish one. These lin­guis­tic pas­sages are exam­ined from both a syn­chron­ic and a diachron­ic per­spec­tive, by dwelling on the geo­gra­phies of the émi­grés’ itin­er­aries as well as on the process of lin­guis­tic trans­for­ma­tion that such itin­er­aries gen­er­at­ed. By ana­lyz­ing these writ­ers’ geo­graph­ic and lin­guis­tic routes, this vol­ume engages the read­er in a met­alin­guis­tic dis­course and high­lights the influ­ence of these first plurilin­gual exper­i­ments on mod­ern the­o­ries con­cern­ing lin­guis­tic glob­al­iza­tion.
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In search of Russ­ian mod­ernism
The writ­ing and teach­ing of Russ­ian lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al his­to­ry have changed lit­tle since the 1980s. In Search of Russ­ian Mod­ernism chal­lenges the basic premis­es of Russ­ian mod­ernist stud­ies, remov­ing the aura of cer­tain­ty sur­round­ing the ana­lyt­i­cal tools at our dis­pos­al and sug­gest­ing auda­cious alter­na­tives to the con­ven­tion­al ways of think­ing and speak­ing about Russ­ian and transna­tion­al mod­ernism.
Draw­ing on method­olog­i­cal break­throughs in Anglo-Amer­i­can new mod­ernist stud­ies, Leonid Livak explores Russ­ian and transna­tion­al mod­ernism as a sto­ry of a self-iden­ti­fied and self-con­scious inter­pre­tive com­mu­ni­ty that bestows a range of mean­ings on human expe­ri­ence. Livak’s approach opens mod­ernist stud­ies to inte­gra­tive and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary analy­sis, includ­ing the exten­sion of schol­ar­ly inquiry beyond tra­di­tion­al artis­tic media in order to account for modernism’s socioe­co­nom­ic and insti­tu­tion­al his­to­ry.
Writ­ing with a stu­dent audi­ence in mind, Livak presents Russ­ian mod­ernism as a minor­i­ty cul­ture coex­ist­ing with oth­er cul­tur­al for­ma­tions while address­ing thorny issues that reg­u­lar­ly come up when dis­cussing mod­ernist arti­facts. Aim­ing to open an over­due debate about the aca­d­e­m­ic fields of Russ­ian and transna­tion­al mod­ernist stud­ies, this book is also intend­ed for an audi­ence of schol­ars in com­par­a­tive lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al stud­ies, spe­cial­ists in Russ­ian and transna­tion­al mod­ernism, and researchers engaged with Euro­pean cul­tur­al his­to­ri­og­ra­phy.
Win­ner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Stud­ies in Slav­ic Lan­guages and Lit­er­a­tures by the Mod­ern Lan­guage Asso­ci­a­tion
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