Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of various documentary and journalistic works by V. G. Korolenko on the theme of the U.S. The material consists of both published and unpublished works during the lifetime of the writer (travel notes, articles, correspondence, etc.). The analysis allows us to see in the works of Korolenko not just ethnographic travel essays but profound reflections on the two images of the world, Russian and American, that include the assessment of the pace of technological progress, ideals of freedom, respect for the individual, attitude toward pragmatism, and individualism. The theme of national awareness on the background of European and American realities is considered to be essential in the work of Korolenko.
Highlights
The proposed article is based on a theoretical idea shared by modern scholars that national identity is developed and preserved in cultural texts that create the identities through which Russia and Russian take the ever-changing forms (Anderson, 1993; National Identity in Russian Culture, 2004)
Korolenko’s speeches in support of ethnic minorities will stay in the history of Russian thought forever
Being Ukrainian and Polish by origin, Korolenko perceived himself as a representative of Russian culture and, mainly reflected about Russia
Summary
The proposed article is based on a theoretical idea shared by modern scholars that national identity is developed and preserved in cultural texts that create the identities through which Russia and Russian take the ever-changing forms (Anderson, 1993; National Identity in Russian Culture, 2004). Being Ukrainian and Polish by origin, Korolenko perceived himself as a representative of Russian culture and, mainly reflected about Russia. The theme of Russia, its historic identity and its future, becomes one of the most controversial topics of Russian realism of the 19th–20th centuries along with the heated debates on national issues and national reflection. It is a cultural axiom that in order to understand “your own” you have to understand the “foreign.” A dialogue with the “others” allows one to find new hidden meanings in their own “word” and, in a cultural text. This allows us to set theoretical identity through contrast and comparison. We rely on the study the U.S perception of Russian culture (Saul, 1991; Arustamova & Kondakov, 2010)
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