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Nabilkina L.N. [The formation of imagological image of America in the genre of travelogue] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 3. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/08KLSK323.pdf (in Russian).

The formation of imagological image of America in the genre of travelogue

Nabilkina Larisa Nikolaevna
National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Arzamas branch, Arzamas, Russia
E-mail: nabilkina@yandex.ru

Abstract. The aim of the article is to analyze the formation of the image of America in the genre of travelogue, the distinctive feature of which is that the personality of a traveler is in the center of narration. He expresses his subjective point of view on the realities described. From the prism of his perception the reader can see countries, behavior and everyday life of it’s citizens. As a result imagological image is created and the narrator becomes a mediator between cultures. Travelogues «All day round non-stop» and «In search of melancholy baby» written by Russian author V. Aksenov are chosen as illustrative material. The novelty of the investigation consists in the fact that for the first time the image of America described in the travelogue is shown from imagological position. The analysis of this image demonstrates ambivalence of the author’s point of view and it’s transformation. At the beginning the USA raises in Aksenov solely positive emotions. American university where he worked as a visiting professor teaching Russian literature admired him greatly. The writer communicated with Russian emigrants a lot and he touches upon a very important culturological and human problem: how to keep national identity in the alien although multicultural country. Gradually we can observe the changes in the author’s outlook and his disappointment in the «country of equal opportunities». In conclusion the transformation in the perception of the USA takes place. The genre of travelogue suits this purpose perfectly as it allows to demonstrate the subjective view on objective reality and creates imagological image.

Keywords: travelogue; imagological image; national identity; multicultural; transformation; mentality; opposition «native-alien»

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