russian-american fiction/memoirs

[Howard Turner]

Sarah,

To state the obvious:

Pnin, Ada (Nabokov)
In Search of Melancholy Baby (Aksyonov)
It's Me, Eddie (? and His Butler) (Limonov)
Little Golden America (Ilf and Petrov)
(is there something by Mayakovsky?)

Libra (Don DeLillo)

Howard Turner


--- On Mon, 9/6/08, Sarah Clovis Bishop <sbishop at WELLESLEY.EDU> wrote:

> From: Sarah Clovis Bishop <sbishop at WELLESLEY.EDU>
> Subject: [SEELANGS] russian-american fiction/memoirs
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Date: Monday, 9 June, 2008, 2:43 PM
> This fall I am teaching a new writing-based course for
> first-year students
> on the theme of "Russians in America; Americans in
> Russia."  (I've used
> "Russians" here for simplicity's sake, but I
> am interested in all citizens
> of Russia, and perhaps some other former Soviet republics).
>  I'm primarily
> interested in issues of culture shock and acculturation.
> I've found some great material (primarily recent
> texts), but before I
> finalize my syllabus, I'd love to hear your suggestions
> for 20th-21st
> century texts (short stories, memoirs, novels, films) that
> deal with
> Americans' experience of Russia or Russians'
> experience of America.  They
> need to be available in English.
> Thanks in advance!
> Sarah
> 
> Sarah Clovis Bishop
> Russian Department
> Wellesley College
> sbishop at wellesley.edu
> 781-283-2448
> 
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