russian-american fiction/memoirs

[Robert A. Rothstein]

Sarah Clovis Bishop wrote:
> 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.  
There are several interesting texts about the experience of 
African-Americans in the Soviet Union, including Langston Hughes' 
autobiography, "I Wonder as I Wander," Homer Smith's "Black Man in Red 
Russia" and Claude McKay's "A Long Way from Home." For others see 
Kathleen Ahern's syllabus for her course "African-American Literary Ties 
to Russian Intellectual Thought" at 
http://www.uncg.edu/gar/courses/ahern/syllabus.htm.

On the Russian side there's Il'f and Petrov's "Odnoetazhnaia Amerika," 
published in English by Princeton Architectural Press in 2006 as "Ilf 
and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet 
Writers," tr. Anne O. Fisher, ed. Erika Wolf.

Bob Rothstein

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