Laughing All the Way to Freedom

The Americanization of a Russian Emigre

Emil Draitser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9298-2 (ISBN)

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A sequel to the author’s autobiographical trilogy - Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin, In the Jaws of the Crocodile, and Farewell, Mama Odessa - this book is part memoir and part cultural study about the challenges of immigration and American acculturation.

A sequel to the author's autobiographical trilogy--Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin, In the Jaws of the Crocodile, and Farewell, Mama Odessa--this book is part memoir and part cultural study about the challenges of immigration and American acculturation. Written with self-deprecating humour, the author, a former Soviet satirist who was punished for trespassing the boundaries of public criticism, recollects his growing pains as he overcame his indoctrinated upbringing in a totalitarian society to embrace America's defining values.

Professor emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York, Emil Draitser is an award-winning author of artistic and scholarly prose. Besides his sixteen books, he has published essays and short stories in the Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Prism International, World Literature Today, and others. He lives in West New York, New Jersey.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration and Translation
Foreword by Konstantin V. Kustanovich
Preface
Part I. Farewell, Step-Mother Russia
1. My Inner Emigration
2. "Lessons of Montreal"
3. "Dust"
Part II. Discovering America
4. "Increditability"
5. Buying a Used Soul
6. "He Won't Make It"
7. Forbidden Laughter
8. Looking for an American Friend
9. "On the bumpy road to love"
Part III. Discovering Self in America
10. Law as a Carriage Drawbar
11. Blacksmiths of Happiness
12. "Save Kisa!"
13. "How Much for a Dozen of Insults?"
14. "Footmall"
IV. The Road to Americanization
15. "Comrade Millionaire"
16. "Disappearance"
17. Who Are You?
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.01.2024
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-9298-X / 147669298X
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-9298-2 / 9781476692982
Zustand	Neuware