{"title":"The Politics of Genre Migration in Gary Shteyngart's Our Country Friends","authors":"Liliana M. Naydan","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a905804","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the hybrid form and content of Our Country Friends through the lens of Gary Shteyngart's Russian-Jewish immigrant experience, arguing that through references to Chekhov's plays and reality television Shteyngart portrays the migratory movement of performance as a genre amid the viral spread of Covid-19 in the US. The genre migration that Shteyngart generates in his novel confounds the borders of literary forms, nations, and reality. It also critiques the performance of features of Russia's past in the xenophobic American present and sets the stage for an innovative performance of an American future that subverts conventional American bigotry.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"307 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a905804","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article considers the hybrid form and content of Our Country Friends through the lens of Gary Shteyngart's Russian-Jewish immigrant experience, arguing that through references to Chekhov's plays and reality television Shteyngart portrays the migratory movement of performance as a genre amid the viral spread of Covid-19 in the US. The genre migration that Shteyngart generates in his novel confounds the borders of literary forms, nations, and reality. It also critiques the performance of features of Russia's past in the xenophobic American present and sets the stage for an innovative performance of an American future that subverts conventional American bigotry.
摘要：本文通过加里·施特因加特（Gary Shteyngart）的俄罗斯-日本移民经历的视角，审视了《我们的乡村朋友》（Our Country Friends）的混合形式和内容，认为通过引用契诃夫的戏剧和真人秀，施特因格特将表演的移民运动描绘成新冠肺炎在美国病毒传播期间的一种流派。Shteyngart在他的小说中产生的类型迁移混淆了文学形式、国家和现实的边界。它还批评了俄罗斯过去的特点在仇外的美国现在的表现，并为颠覆美国传统偏见的美国未来的创新表现奠定了基础。
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From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.
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