This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist...
This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays conside...
The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such asDaniel Stein, Interpreterby Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova,Secondhand Time: The Last of the Sovietsby Svetlana Alexievich, andIn Memory of Memoryby Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often...
The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as...
