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Follows the life of a woman born in Moscow who leaves for the United States, where she finds happiness and love but must also deal with the ghosts of her youth.

Winner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Rene Wellek Prize (2004) As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and art, Fordism and Detroit techno—each proposed as exemplary of the social construction of aesthetic and cultural forms. His book is a full-scale attempt to place the linguistic turn of critical theory and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language by the avant-garde since the Russian Formalists in relation to the cultural politics of postcolonial studies, feminism, and race theory. As such, it will provide a crucial revisionist perspective within modernist and avant-garde studies.

The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.

In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together published writings, archival materials, and personal correspondence of well or less known travelers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and artistic predilections: from the quintessential American Mark Twain to the Russian-Jewish ethnographer and revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz; from masters of realist prose such as the Ukrainian-born Vladimir Korolenko and the Jewish-Russian-American Abraham Cahan, to romantic wanderers like Edna Proctor, Isabel Hapgood or Grigorii Machtet. By highlighting the reification of problematic stereotypes of ethnic and racial difference in these texts, Marinova illuminates the astonishing success of the Cold War period’s rhetoric of mutual hatred and exclusion, and its continuing legacy today. Margarita Marinova is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University. \"Marinova's research brings together a variety of Russian and American voices from this period and provides a thoughtful analysis of their convergences, similarities, differences, and 'mimetic capital'... Her work is an important step in understanding both historical and contemporary Russian and American attitudes towards each other.\" - Slavic and East European Journal Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Russian Tourists View Postbellum America 2: \"Innocent\" Encounters with Russia, or Americans at Play 3: Russian \"Marvels\" and American \"Originals.\" The View of Russia and America During the Last Two Decades of the Nineteenth Century 4: The Gifts of Travel: Tales of Passing of the Ethnic Russian in America: Vladimir Korolenko’s Bez Iazyka and Abraham Cahan’s \"Theodore and Martha\" and The White Terror and the Red Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and art, Fordism and Detroit techno--each proposed as exemplary of the social construction of aesthetic and cultural forms. His book is a full-scale attempt to place the linguistic turn of critical theory and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language by the avant-garde since the Russian Formalists in relation to the cultural politics of postcolonial studies, feminism, and race theory. As such, it will provide a crucial revisionist perspective within modernist and avant-garde studies.

\"Between the 1890s and the 1930s, advancements in communication and travel encouraged widespread international cultural exchange, and Americans increasingly came into contact with Russian culture and theatrical performance. A number of factors, including emigration from Russia, world war, revolutionary activities in both Russia and the United States, and developments in modernism in the American theatre influenced the way those performances were received by American artists and audiences. Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance\"-- Provided by publisher.

The article develops a strategic framework to redefine American international leadership under the Biden administration. While the decline of the American-led order is not a new trend, it has been accelerated under the Trump administration, which focused on domestic policies and left the global stage in disarray. The challenges are many for the new president, and many pressures can already be felt. Biden’s administration is under high expectations to stabilize the international system and deal with the many issues that the world faces: economic recovery, COVID-19, climate change, cybersecurity, and relations with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, to name but a few. Yet, while the Biden presidency is—wrongly—understood as “U.S. back to normal,” the international stage has evolved. The article thus argues that restoring American world leadership means modifying that leadership and adapting it to the new reality. Building on management theories and the English School of international relations theories, the research presents a theoretical framework for reinventing and reconstructing a new form of leadership. It then applies the resulting strategic design to the Biden administration’s objectives and policies in the form of seven strategic recommendations. Ultimately, the article explains how the United States can remain world leader by acknowledging the current global situation and adopting a pragmatic vision of international affairs. El artículo desarrolla un marco estratégico para redefinir el liderazgo internacional estadounidense bajo la administración Biden. Si bien el declive del orden liderado por Estados Unidos no es una tendencia nueva, se aceleró bajo la administración Trump, que se centró en las políticas internas y dejó el escenario mundial en desorden. Los desafíos son muchos para el nuevo presidente y ya se pueden sentir muchas presiones. La administración de Biden tiene grandes expectativas de estabilizar el sistema internacional y abordar los muchos problemas que enfrenta el mundo: recuperación económica, COVID-19, cambio climático, ciberseguridad, relaciones con China, Rusia, Irán, Corea del Norte, por nombrar solo algunos. Sin embargo, si bien la presidencia de Biden se entiende, erróneamente, como “Estados Unidos de vuelta a la normalidad,” el escenario internacional ha evolucionado. Por tanto, el artículo sostiene que restaurar el liderazgo mundial estadounidense significa modificar ese liderazgo y adaptarlo a la nueva realidad. Sobre la base de las teorías de la gestión y las teorías de las relaciones internacionales de la Escuela Inglesa, la investigación presenta un marco teórico para reinventar y reconstruir una nueva forma de liderazgo. Luego aplica el diseño estratégico resultante a los objetivos y políticas de la administración de Biden en forma de siete recomendaciones estratégicas. En última instancia, el artículo explica cómo Estados Unidos puede seguir siendo líder mundial reconociendo la situación mundial actual y adoptando una visión pragmática de los asuntos internacionales. 本文建立了一個戰略框架，以重新定義拜登政府領導下的美國國際領導地位。儘管以美國為首的秩序的衰落並不是新趨勢，但在特朗普政府的推動下，這種趨勢加速了。特朗普政府專注於國內政策，卻使全球舞台陷入混亂。新總統面臨許多挑戰，已經感受到許多壓力。拜登政府對穩定國際體系和處理世界面臨的許多問題寄予很高的期望：經濟復 甦，COVID-19，氣候變化，網絡安全，與中國，俄羅斯，伊朗，朝鮮的關係，僅舉幾例。然而，雖然拜登總統被錯誤地理解為”美國回到正常狀態”，國際舞台已經演變。因此，本文認為，恢復美國的世界領導地位意味著要修改該領導地位並使之適應新的現實。該研究以管理理論和英國國際關係學派為基礎，為重塑和重構一種新的領導形式提供了理論框架。然後，它以七項戰略建議的形式將由此產生的戰略設計應用於拜登政府的目標和政策。最終，本文解釋了美國如何通過承認當前的全球局勢並採取務實的國際事務遠景來保持世界領導地位。

During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called \"the magic pilgrimage\" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued \"ethnic avant-garde.\" These writers and artists cohered around distinct forms that mirrored Soviet techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption. They orbited interwar Moscow, where the international avant-garde converged with the Communist International. The book explores Vladimir Mayakovsky's 1925 visit to New York City via Cuba and Mexico, during which he wrote Russian-language poetry in an \"Afro-Cuban\" voice; Langston Hughes's translations of these poems while in Moscow, which he visited to assist on a Soviet film about African American life; a futurist play condemning Western imperialism in China, which became Broadway's first major production to feature a predominantly Asian American cast; and efforts to imagine the Bolshevik Revolution as Jewish messianic arrest, followed by the slow political disenchantment of the New York Intellectuals. Through an absorbing collage of cross-ethnic encounters that also include Herbert Biberman, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Robeson, and Vladimir Tatlin, this work remaps global modernism along minority and Soviet-centered lines, further advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew.