Родина-мать vs. статуя Свободы: противопоставление женских аллегорий наций в современном российском антиамериканизме
«The Motherland calls!» vs. Lady Liberty: opposition of female allegories of nations in contemporary Russian anti-Americanism

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the use of the «Motherland Calls!» and the Statue of Liberty monuments in the anti-Americanism discourse. It explains how such opposition impacts the status of Volgograd Motherland in the Russian cultural space. Modern Russian anti-Americanism discourse ascribes to the Statue of Liberty those traits that constitute the negative stereotype of an American; among them the lack of spirituality, aggressiveness, falsehood, arrogance and claims to the exceptionalism of America. The author concludes that such opposition contributes to the maintenance of the status of the Volgograd «Motherland» as the embodiment of Russia; the Statue of Liberty fulfills the vis-a-vis function of the Volgograd monument, while the rivalry between Russia and the United States is allegorically embodied in the opposition of the Motherland vs. The Statue of Liberty.

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