Karamzin's Traveler Meets the Locals: Micro‐Encounters in <i>Letters of a Russian Traveler</i>
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Abstract
Karamzin's Letters of a Russian Traveler , like most Russian travel narratives, is concerned with questions of national identity; my focus, however, is on the stories of human contact within the broader narratives of the encounter of civilizations, which I call micro‐encounters . I discuss the traveler's personal encounters with the ‘non‐great’ and ‘non‐sublime,’ proceeding from such questions as: What type of identity is constructed when he comes face‐to‐face with an ordinary local? How does he act, when the object of his gaze is neither Kant, nor the Rhine Falls but an uncelebrated foreign woman, peasant, or student? And what if they look back? These episodes reveal the multiple layers of the carefully constructed narrative persona, as one that negotiates between various, often conflicting identities, such as that of a representative of a culture, gender, social position, or an artistic movement. Like microhistory, the micro‐encounter analysis reduces the scale of observation in order to focus on the issues of individual agency and the key role of the narrative persona.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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