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A.M. GORKY INSTITUTE OF WORLD LITERATURE
OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Literature of the Americas

JOURNAL OF LITERARY HISTORY

Povarskaya St., 25A, bld. 1,, 121069 Moscow, Russia

Tel. +7 10 495 690-50-30

editor@litda.ru,  literaturа.da@gmail.com

CONTENTS

THE WRITER IN LITERARY HISTORY

Kristina Buynova. “They Will Speak to All Mankind”: Carlos Fuentes and the Soviet Thaw
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POETICS. READING AND INTERPRETING

Veronika Zuseva-Özkan. Jenaro Prieto’s Satirical Novel Un muerto de mal criterio (1926) and the Problem of Posthumous Narration
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READING PAUL AUSTER

Walking Through the City of Glass: The Art of Navigation. Roundtable Proceedings
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LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS — 21ST CENTURY

Anna Fomicheva, Ekaterina Morilova. Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive: At the Crossroads of Cultures, Languages and Literary Allusions
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Valentina Sergeeva
. Allusion and “Illusion”: Geoffrey Chaucer in Contemporary American Fantastic Literature
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LITERATURE IN CONTEXT

Yulia Kleiman. The Negro Boy Between the “Dark Forest” and the “Faraway Kingdom”: The USA / Foreign Lands and the USSR in Soviet Children’s Plays, 1920–1930s
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Polina Rybina. The Atmospheric Effects of Film Adaptations: Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire Reimagined by Woody Allen
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Irina Golovacheva. Female Body in Hollywood: “The Substance” – From Screenplay to Script
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Radoje V Šoškić. From Myth to Simulacrum: Steve Tesich’s Vision of America
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MEMORABLE DATE.  UNITED STATES SEMIQUINCENTENNIALL 1776 –2026

Maria Filimonova. Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in the American Revolution: The Case of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
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Irina Khruleva. The Evolution of the Concept of Happiness in Puritan Election Sermon of the 18th Century
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Irina Morozova. “Republican Motherhood” and the Discourse of Liberty in the Playwriting of Mercy Otis Warren
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Yuri Stulov. Echoes of the American Revolution in Calvin Baker’s Novel Dominion
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OLD WORLD & NEW WORLD

Maxim Gudkov. “A Jest from the Country of Soviets”: Valentin Katayev’s Vaudeville Squaring the Circle on Broadway (1935)
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Victoria Popova.
Cuban Writers and the Journal International Literature
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HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES

Victoria Popova. At the Origins of Latin American Literary Studies in the USSR: The History of the Ibero-American Group at the GAKhN 
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ACADEMIC LIFE. NEWS. EVENTS. BOOK REVIEWS

Karina Ibragimova. “And as to Who Will Copy this Palimpsest?” Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound (Ezra Pound. Selected Cantos. Bilingual edition. Ed. by B. Avdeev. Vancouver: Ibi Oculus Press, 2025. 415 p.)
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Olga Panova. About America, Past and Present: A New Course on the History and Civilization of the USA (The United States of America in the Past and Present: Pro et Contra. Lecture Course. In 2 vols, ed. by V.I. Zhuravleva. 2nd ed., revised and expanded. Moscow: RSUH Publ., 2025. 619 p.)
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Boris Kovalev. The Return of Mario Vargas Llosa (Aguirre, Carlos, and Kristina Buynova. Five Days in Moscow: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Visit to the Soviet Union (1968). Moscow: Litfact Publ., 2025. 240 p.)
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Elena Ogneva. Literature at the Third Latin American Readings at MSU (2025): Academic Life 
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IN MEMORIAM

Olga Svetlakova
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