Russian-english literary translingualism: Switching from Cyrillic to Roman across the Atlantic

This chapter surveys Anglophone American literature written by Russian-speaking immigrants over the past hundred years. It discusses three translingual “superstars”-Ayn Rand, Vladimir Nabokov, and Joseph Brodsky-as well as a few lesser-known twentieth-century Russian-born writers, before moving on to the current wave of twenty-first-century Russian-American immigrant novelists and poets. Most of these authors came to the U.S. as part of the Jewish exodus from the Soviet Union and its successor states.