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- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Promised Lands
- Part II New York and the Eastern States
- 5 Extraordinary Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- 6 Photographing New York
- 7 Dos
- 8 The Business of Pleasure
- 9 Black New York
- 10 Complex Hybrids
- 11 Squaring the Circle
- 12 The Apex of Middlebrow Culture
- Part III To the Pacific Ocean
- Part IV The Golden State
- Part V Journey’s End
- Select Bibliography
- Index
10 - Complex Hybrids
from Part II - New York and the Eastern States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2024
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Promised Lands
- Part II New York and the Eastern States
- 5 Extraordinary Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- 6 Photographing New York
- 7 Dos
- 8 The Business of Pleasure
- 9 Black New York
- 10 Complex Hybrids
- 11 Squaring the Circle
- 12 The Apex of Middlebrow Culture
- Part III To the Pacific Ocean
- Part IV The Golden State
- Part V Journey’s End
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10 uncovers the Jewish immigrants from the Russian empire who, to an extent elided in Ilf and Petrov’s published work, served them as critical cultural mediators. It recounts their hunt for a guide willing to accompany them on their road trip, and sketches the biographies of their eventual “angels,” the retired GE engineer Solomon Trone and his wife Florence Trone, who became the prototypes for the fictionalized Mr. and Mrs. Adams. Recovering the writers’ connections with people like the Trones, the chapter explores cultural exchange as a process that at once sharpened and blurred the lines between "us" and the "Other."
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- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the CapitalistsIlf and Petrov's American Road Trip, pp. 99 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024