Turkmens and their country through the eyes of the Afro-American writer in 1932 Cover Image

Туркмены и их страна глазами афроамериканского писателя в 1932 году
Turkmens and their country through the eyes of the Afro-American writer in 1932

Author(s): Muradgeldi Sojegov
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Ethnohistory, Other Language Literature, Philology
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: film;travel;translator;memoirs;book;racisms

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the questions connected with short-term stay in 1932 in Turkmenistan of the black American prose writer and poet Langston Hughes (1902–1967) which by results of the trip has written the book of travel “A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia” (Moscow, 1934) are mentioned. This book in the USA left under the name “I wonder as I wander” (New York, 1956). The author of the article carries out a certain analysis of the data containing in the given book.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 27-28
  • Page Range: 104-112
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian