This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women s development of "popular" culture and their ingenious reinventions of "high" literature. The essays analyze women s creativity of every type their products, performances, and collaborative exchanges in sites that range from the bath-house to the ballroom.
Contributors are Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Lina...
This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilitie...
Tatiana Smorodinskaya Helena Goscilo Karen Evans-Romaine
This is the latest addition to Routledge's highly successful A-Z Contemporary Cultures series, which has to date published 10 national and regional encyclopedias. The "Encyclopedia" covers the period 1953, with the death of Stalin, to the present day. Both 'Russian' and 'Culture' are defined broadly. 'Russian' refers to the Soviet Union until 1991 and the Russian Federation after 1991. Given the diversity of the Federation in its ethnic composition and regional characteristics, questions of national, regional, and ethnic identity are given special attention. There is also coverage of...
This is the latest addition to Routledge's highly successful A-Z Contemporary Cultures series, which has to date published 10 national and regional en...
Glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Union revolutionized Russian society. What effects, however, did they have on the status, role, and image of women in Russian culture? Examining the past turbulent decade of transition to "democracy" and a market economy, Dehexing Sex traces the ways in which Russia's concept of womanhood both changed and remained the same, taking into account dominant ideologies and social philosophies, sociopolitical organizations, women's writings, literary criticism, film, and popular cultural forms such as pornography. The lively, engaging chapters of...
Glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Union revolutionized Russian society. What effects, however, did they have on the status, role, and image of w...
Winner, 1997 National Book Award for Poetry Winner, 1993 PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Published in 1776 and considered the first Polish novel ever written, "The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom" is a picaresque tale following the naive title character's coming of age. Having conquered (and fled) sophisticated Warsaw, Nicholas enjoys many adventures across Europe, South America, and the high seas. He finally lands among the natives of an unknown isle who reject his allegedly superior European ways and instead tutor him for an "enlightened" existence. Resonant with...
Winner, 1997 National Book Award for Poetry Winner, 1993 PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Published in 1776 and considered the firs...
-My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war.- Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought together in a large communal apartment by the vagaries of war in the year 1943. It spotlights the female experience of World War II: the fate of those not at the front, but still forced to fight as desperately to survive starvation, cold, and exhaustion, and to maintain homes and a country to which the soldiers can return. The Ship of Widows reveals an seldom-seen period of Russia's history and an understudied segment of its population---it's...
-My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war.- Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought togethe...
This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel "Little Fool, " nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history, the story follows the transformation of Ganna, a girl from the Volga shores, into a modern-day Madonna. Also included are the novella "Shamara" and several short stories, including the acclaimed "Going After Goat Antelopes."
This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel "Little Fool, " nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history, the...
This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel "Little Fool, " nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history, the story follows the transformation of Ganna, a girl from the Volga shores, into a modern-day Madonna. Also included are the novella "Shamara" and several short stories, including the acclaimed "Going After Goat Antelopes."
This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel "Little Fool, " nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history, the...
A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet era We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's literature. How much more-and how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet culture, especially in its utopian ambitions-becomes clear for the first time in Politicizing Magic, a compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical...
A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Sov...
A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet era We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's literature. How much more-and how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet culture, especially in its utopian ambitions-becomes clear for the first time in Politicizing Magic, a compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical...
A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Sov...
Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia since the October Revolution of 1917. It is useful for students in the fields of gender studies and Russian history.
Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection o...
