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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">26938</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-2-227-236</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">The Depths of My Africa: Travelogues on the Land of Ancestors by Claude McKay and Langston Hughes</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>«В недрах моей Африки»: травелоги Клода Маккея и Лэнгстона Хьюза о «стране предков»</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kuzina</surname><given-names>Daria D.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кузина</surname><given-names>Дарья Дмитриевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D. student, junior researcher, Department of Literatures of Europe and America of Modern Times</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант, научный сотрудник, отдел литератур Европы и Америки Новейшего времени</p></bio><email>ketrivenia@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт мировой литературы имени А.М. Горького Российской академии наук</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>227</fpage><lpage>236</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, Kuzina D.D.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Кузина Д.Д.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kuzina D.D.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Кузина Д.Д.</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/26938">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/26938</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article is devoted to the image of Africa in the travelogues by poets Claude McKay (A Long Way From Home, 1937) and Langston Hughes (The Big Sea, 1940), the significant figures of Harlem Renaissance; and also compares this image with Africa in the poems of both writers. The image of Africa as “the land of ancestors” and “the foremother of the Negro people” was popular among the artists and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance, but at the same time, it was often idealized. That is why meeting a real Africa becomes, to some extent, a moment of truth for an African-American artist, the reason to take a new look at himself and his values. Biographies of Hughes and McKay reveal why equally motivated, at first glance, writers united by a common dream of a “black people’s home”, when faced with the real Africa, react to it in exactly the opposite way. The article shows that young cosmopolitan poet Langston Hughes did not find respond to his poetic ideals in real Africa and after that forever divided Africa into real and poetic, while Claude McKay, who kept up the reunification of the Negro people and had traveled around the whole Europe, only in Africa for the first time in his life “went native”. At the same time, Hughes is significantly influenced by his mixed origins and McKay - by his colonial background. The article contains materials of correspondence, fragments of the travelogues never been translated into Russian before.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Анализируется образ Африки в травелогах поэтов Гарлемского ренессанса Клода Маккея («Вдали от дома», 1937) и Лэнгстона Хьюза («Большая вода», 1940), а также производится сопоставление этого образа с Африкой, фигурирующей в стихах обоих литераторов. Образ Африки как «страны предков» и «праматери негритянского народа» был популярен среди деятелей Гарлемского ренессанса, но при этом нередко идеализировался. Именно поэтому встреча с реальной Африкой становится в определенной степени моментом истины для афроамериканского художника, поводом для переосмысления самого себя и собственных ценностей. С помощью обращения к биографиям Хьюза и Маккея удается выявить, почему, на первый взгляд, одинаково мотивированные писатели, люди, объединенные общей мечтой о «доме черного народа», при столкновении с реальной Африкой реагируют на нее прямо противоположным образом. Показано, как молодой поэт Лэнгстон Хьюз, настроенный, в сущности, космополитически, не обнаружил в реальной Африке соответствия своим поэтическим идеалам и после этого навсегда разделил Африку реальную и Африку стихотворную, между тем как искренне ратовавший за воссоединение негритянского народа Клод Маккей, объездивший всю Европу, именно в Африке впервые в жизни почувствовал себя «своим». При этом на Хьюза значительное влияние оказывает его смешанное происхождение, а на Маккея - колониальное прошлое. Приводятся материалы переписки, широко используются фрагменты самих травелогов, никогда ранее не переводившихся на русский язык.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Harlem Renaissance</kwd><kwd>travelogue</kwd><kwd>American literature</kwd><kwd>Langston Hughes</kwd><kwd>Claude McKay</kwd><kwd>identity quest</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Гарлемский ренессанс</kwd><kwd>травелог</kwd><kwd>литература США</kwd><kwd>Лэнгстон Хьюз</kwd><kwd>Клод Маккей</kwd><kwd>поиск идентичности</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The article was written with the support of the RFBR grant No. 19-312-90043/19 “American Travelogues Between Two World Wars: A Look at the ‘Old’ Europe and ‘New’ Russia”.</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Статья написана при поддержке гранта РФФИ № 19-312-90043/19 «Американские травелоги между двумя мировыми войнами: взгляд на „старую“ Европу и „новую“ Россию».</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Panova, O. 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