Naslov
''Precarious Race Meets Working Class Slavs: Socialist Reconceptualization of Race and Class in East-European Travel Writings to the USA''
('Precarious Race Meets Working Class Slavs: Socialist Reconceptualization of Race and Class in East-European Travel Writings to the USA'')

Autori
Kolanović, Maša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

Mjesto i datum
Chicago (IL), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 10-13.11.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Travel Writings, Socialism, Race, Class

Sažetak
During most of the 20th Century, the United States of America was the most prominent destination of modernity for travel writers from all over the Eastern Europe. It was a period when socialism and capitalism were competing as two main narratives of modernity, mostly on the terrain of technical progress and everyday life standard. Prominent Eastern European writers, journalists and intellectuals of the revolutionary left and of openly declared socialist provenance such as Vladimir Mayakovski, Ilf and Petrov, Egon Ervin Kisch, Vladmir Dedijer and others wrote their travel writings after visiting the United States during the first half of the 20th century and later. This paper aims to reflect the specific quality of socialist perspective on precarious social and economic conditions in the 20th century USA which points on close connections of class and racial inequalities.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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