Short Story in Translation: Russian Citizenship and National Identity

[rjs19 at COLUMBIA.EDU]

The first story that sprang to mind for me was Chekhov's "Tumbleweed"  
(Perekati-pole, available online in Garnett's translation under the  
title "Uprooted"). It records a Russian's reflections on the pitiful  
and (he thinks) ultimately doomed efforts of a baptized Jew to become  
"Russian." But the citizenship idea is presented rather as an absence  
than as a presence....

Rebecca

Quoting Benjamin Rifkin <rifkin at TCNJ.EDU>:

> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> A colleague of mine in history is teaching a course next semester on  
>  citizenship and national identity in the European context.  He  
> asked  me to recommend a short story written by a Russian writer,  
> widely  available in translation for his students who don't read in  
> Russian,  to include in his syllabus.
>
> My thoughts run in a thousand different directions on this question   
> and I've come up with numerous films that I think are relevant, but   
> I'm wondering if you might recommend some short stories by Russian   
> authors that could be found in translation that perhaps have worked   
> well for you in this or a related context.
>
> With thanks and best wishes,
>
> Ben Rifkin
> The College of New Jersey
>
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