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Moscow Yankee

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Author : Myra Page
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1995

Moscow Yankee written by Myra Page and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.

The Depression era closing of a Ford plant sends Andy and two companions to Moscow to find work in a Soviet automotive plant, where he meets Natasha, an exemplar of the "new Soviet woman." Based on Myra Page's own experiences in Moscow during the first Five-Year Plan, Natasha is a portrait of women's contradictory social position in the early periods of socialist construction. At the core of this novel is a firsthand look at the developing forces and changing relations of production forces that bring about the conversion of Andy into a "Moscow Yankee." While revealing the political and economic policies that would inevitably lead to the demise of Soviet-style socialism, Moscow Yankee refutes the notion that egalitarian societies cannot succeed because they fail to take into account the individualism and greed of "human nature." Barbara Foley's introduction analyzes the Soviet Socialist construction in Page's novel and the politics of the novelistic form in relation to Moscow Yankee. Originally published in 1935 "A picture of Americans lured to Moscow by hope in the 'great experiment, ' and of others driven there by the depression, and of still others attracted by the simple desire to get good engineering jobs, Moscow Yankee; has a decided value . . . a sense of life, stirring in the chaos of destruction and reconstruction." -- The New York Times Book Review

The Novel And The American Left

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Author : Janet Galligani Casey
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2004-06

The Novel And The American Left written by Janet Galligani Casey and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06 with Business & Economics categories.

The first collection of critical essays to focus specifically on the fiction produced by American novelists of the Depression era, The Novel and the American Left contributes substantially to the newly emerging emphasis on twentieth-century American literary radicalism. Recent studies have recovered this body of work and redefined in historical and theoretical terms its vibrant contribution to American letters. Casey consolidates and expands this field of study by providing a more specific consideration of individual novels and novelists, many of which are reaching new contemporary audiences through reprints. The Novel and the American Left focuses exclusively on left-leaning fiction of the Depression era, lending visibility and increased critical validity to these works and showing the various ways in which they contributed not only to theorizations of the Left but also to debates about the content and form of American fiction. In theoretical terms, the collection as a whole contributes to the larger reconceptualization of American modernity currently under way. More pragmatically, individual essays suggest specific authors, texts, and approaches to teachers and scholars seeking to broaden and/or complicate more traditional “American modernism” syllabi and research agendas. The selected essays take up, among others, such “hard-core"” leftist writers as Mike Gold and Myra Page, who were associated with the Communist Party; the popular novels of James M. Cain and Kenneth Fearing, whose works were made into successful films; and critically acclaimed but nonetheless “lost” novelists such as Josephine Johnson, whose Now in November (Pulitzer Prize, 1936) anticipates and complicates the more popular agrarian mythos of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. This volume will be of interest not only to literary specialists but also to historians, social scientists, and those interested in American cultural studies.

Americans Experience Russia

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Author : Choi Chatterjee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013

Americans Experience Russia written by Choi Chatterjee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.

Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can be found, none has yet examined how Americans' encounters with Russian/Soviet society shaped their representations of a Russian/Soviet 'other' and its relationship with an American 'west.' The essays in this volume critically engage with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter, repressing native voices that must be recovered. Unlike western imperialists and their colonial subjects, Americans and Russians long co-existed in a tense parity, regarding each other as other-than-European equals, sometime cultural role models, temporary allies, and political antagonists. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their 'Russian experience,' the contributors to this volume closely analyze these texts, locate them in their sociopolitical context, and gauge how their producers' profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality. The volume also explores the blurred boundaries between national identities and representations of self/other after the Soviet Union's fall.

In A Generous Spirit

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Author : Christina Looper Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1996

In A Generous Spirit written by Christina Looper Baker and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Dorothy Markey's family and culture prepared her to be a proper southern lady. Yet Markey broke free of her cultural bonds and became, instead, a feminist, a communist, and, under the pen name Myra Page, a radical journalist and novelist. Her activism on behalf of social justice, racial equality, and women's rights spanned the 1920s through her death in 1993. Page's work carried her far from her Virginia home to Moscow, Mexico, the rural South, and New York. As a journalist she wrote for the Daily Worker, the New Masses, Working Woman, and Southern Worker. Her novels captured workers' struggles in an authentic voice: The Gathering Storm, Daughter of the Hills, and Moscow Yankee. With consummate skill, Christina Baker weaves together historical research, her own and others' conversations with Page, and Page's letters and other writings. The resulting narrative is a vivid recreation of the life of an uncommon woman and her more than seventy years of striving for the things she believed in.

The Nation

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-07

The Nation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07 with Current events categories.

100 Great American Novels You Ve Probably Never Read

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Author : Karl Bridges
language : en
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2007-09-30

100 Great American Novels You Ve Probably Never Read written by Karl Bridges and has been published by Libraries Unlimited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

From Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons and Anzia Yzierska's The Bread Givers to Laurie Colwin's Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object and Chet Raymo's The Dork of Cork, here are some of the forgotten gems of American literature. Bridges has compiled a diverse list of 100 American novels published between 1797 and 1997 and worthy of the title great. Although the idea is to bring light to the obscure, these titles are physically accessible to readers—either in print, or represented in library collections and available through library loan.

Yankees New World Order Buried In Mogadishu

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Author : James B. M. N. Rugiireheh-Runaku
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Yankees New World Order Buried In Mogadishu written by James B. M. N. Rugiireheh-Runaku and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Developing countries categories.

The Russian Theme In English Literature From The Sixteenth Century To 1980

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Author : Anthony Glenn Cross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford : W.A. Meeuws
Release Date : 1985

The Russian Theme In English Literature From The Sixteenth Century To 1980 written by Anthony Glenn Cross and has been published by Oxford : W.A. Meeuws this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Literary Criticism categories.

Opinion A Journal Of Jewish Life And Letters

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933

Opinion A Journal Of Jewish Life And Letters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.

Yankees S Sic New World Order Buried In Mogadishu

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Author : James N. M. B. Rugiireheh-Runaku
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Yankees S Sic New World Order Buried In Mogadishu written by James N. M. B. Rugiireheh-Runaku and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Developing countries categories.