The Pattersons
Expatriate and Native Son
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10479638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rimgaila Salys (Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado at Boulder., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 434-456 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/russ.12084 |
| OpenAlex | W2409759136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article is concerned with how two generations of an African‐American family, the father Lloyd Patterson and the son James Patterson, constructed lives in the Soviet Union of the Stalin and post‐Stalin eras. Lloyd Patterson's ideological and economic decision to settle in the USSR allowed him to develop his talents and fulfill his potential in a manner that was impossible in the United States of the 1930s. The better known James (little Jimmy of Grigorii Aleksandrov's Circus ) negotiated identity successfully in three interrelated ways: through his cinematic myth; by the practice of Socialist Realism, both as a literary mode and in its ideological considerations during the late Soviet era; and in a multifaceted self‐identification with Russia's national poet, Aleksandr Pushkin
Aesthetics · Art · Expatriate · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Soviet union · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |