Russian Emigrant Culture in North America

Ellen Elias-Bursac eliasbursac at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 10 16:11:36 UTC 2012


A recent novel is David Bezmosgis *The Free World.*

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Sasha Senderovich <
sasha.senderovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need
> texts that are available in English):
>
> - Joseph Brodsky's essays
> *- *novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
> - Ludmila Ulitskaya's *The Funeral Party*
> - Eduard Limonov, *It's Me, Eddie*
> *
> *
> A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just
> published a book on this topic, *Out of Russia: Fictions of a New
> Translingual Diaspora*; Sanna Turoma's *Brodsky Abroad*; there was a
> volume of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to
> the subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre
> Russian writing, etc.
>
> There's more: this is just off the top of my head.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <
> inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear SEELANGSers,
>>
>> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I
>> am having some trouble finding relevant materials.
>>
>> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's *Russian Immigrants in the
>> United States,* the last chapter of John Glad's *Russian Abroad*, and
>> some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya
>> Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.)
>>
>> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs,
>> articles, movies, documentaries...
>>
>> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Ines Garcia
>>
>> Ines Garcia de la Puente
>> University of St.Gallen
>> Switzerland
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