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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26937</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-2-217-226</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Northern Cheyenne Exodus and Negroes Lynching: Historical Novels of Howard Fast in the USSR</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Исход шайеннов и линчевание негров: рецепция исторических романов Говарда Фаста в СССР</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Scherbinina</surname><given-names>Olga I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Щербинина</surname><given-names>Ольга Ивановна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D student, Department of History of Foreign Literature, Faculty of Philology</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант, кафедра истории зарубежной литературы, филологический факультет</p></bio><email>olga-scherbinina24@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-07-02" publication-format="electronic"><day>02</day><month>07</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 26, NO2 (2021)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 26, №2 (2021)</issue-title><fpage>217</fpage><lpage>226</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-07-02"><day>02</day><month>07</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Scherbinina O.I.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Щербинина О.И.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Scherbinina O.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Щербинина О.И.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/26937">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/26937</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article deals with the historical novels’ reception of Howard Fast (a writer who was extremely popular in the 1950s, though he is almost forgotten now) in the Soviet Union. Once a USA Communist Party member loyal to the USSR, he became a fierce opponent of Soviet communism. The analysis of the American context uncovers the reasons why the author of left-wing beliefs turned to the genre of a historical novel and peculiarities of the literary market he faced. A close study of Soviet reviews demonstrates that the novels The Last Frontier and The Freedom Road were perceived by Soviet literary critics as Fast’s protest against racial discrimination and growing right-wing sentiment. These problems were a matter of urgency against the background of the McCarthy campaign, which Fast fell victim to in 1947. His novel The Freedom Road was put on the stage in Moscow theaters. According to Soviet reviewers, the absence of “decadent” primitivism set Fast apart from other once-friendly Soviet writers such as Richard Wright and Claude McKay. Within this tradition of exoticism criticism, dating back to the 1920s and 1930s, novels about distant lands were highly appreciated only when ethnographic descriptions were used for consistent social criticism. Being a committed supporter of the concept “art as a weapon” developed in the Soviet Union, Fast perceived exaggerated exoticism, top-heavy descriptions of historical novels as a sign of escapist literature that ignores the method of dialectical materialism.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Исследуется рецепция исторических романов Говарда Фаста (популярного в 1950-е гг. автора, прошедшего путь от лояльного СССР члена КП США до «врага» коммунизма в его советском изводе) в Советском Союзе. Анализ американского контекста помогает проследить, почему автор левых убеждений обратился к жанру исторического романа и с какой спецификой литературного рынка он столкнулся. Краткий обзор советских рецензий позволяет продемонстрировать, что романы «Последняя граница» и «Дорога свободы» воспринимались советскими литературоведами как протест Фаста против расовой дискриминации и растущего могущества правых сил. Особенную актуальность данные проблемы приобретали на фоне маккартистской кампании - ее жертвой Фаст стал в 1947 г. О степени популярности писателя в Советском Союзе свидетельствуют и инсценировки его романа «Дорога свободы» на сцене московских театров, анализ которых приводится в статье. Рецензируя «Последнюю границу» и «Дорогу свободы», советские литературоведы отмечали, что отсутствие «декадентского» примитивизма выделяло Фаста среди других некогда дружественных СССР писателей, таких как, например, Ричард Райт и Клод Маккей. В рамках этой традиции критики экзотизма, берущей свое начало в 1920-1930-е гг., романы, в которых шла речь о далеких краях, имели ценность только тогда, когда этнографические описания использовались для последовательного социального критицизма. Сам Фаст, поддерживая разработанную в Советском Союзе концепцию «искусство как оружие», также рассматривал утрированную экзотику, пышную декоративность исторических романов как примету эскапистской литературы, которая игнорирует метод диалектического материализма.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Howard Fast</kwd><kwd>history of American literature</kwd><kwd>Soviet-American literary contacts</kwd><kwd>Russian-American literary contacts</kwd><kwd>historical novel</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Говард Фаст</kwd><kwd>история американской литературы</kwd><kwd>советско-американские литературные связи</kwd><kwd>русско-американские литературные связи</kwd><kwd>исторический роман</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Gribachev, N. (1958, January 30.) Howard Fast – revisionist psalmist. Literaturnaja Gazeta. 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