A History of Women's Writing in Russia

by Edited by Adele Marie Barker , Jehanne M. Gheith

• ISBN13: 9780521576109
• ISBN10: 0521576105
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A History of Women's Writing in Russia traces comprehensively the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist, looking at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and re-assesing their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Note on Transliteration	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 15
Women's Image in Russian Medieval Literature	p. 16
Notes	p. 35
Sappho, Corinna, and Niobe: Genres and Personae in Russian Women's Writing, 1760-1820	p. 37
Notes	p. 59
The Inexperienced Muse: Russian Women and Poetry in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century	p. 62
Notes	p. 82
Women of the 1830s and 1850s: Alternative Periodizations	p. 85
Notes	p. 98
A Particle of Our Soul: Prerevolutionary Autobiography by Russian Women Writers	p. 100
Notes	p. 115
The Women of Russian Montparnasse (Paris, 1920-1940)	p. 117
Notes	p. 132
Women in Russian Symbolism: Beyond the Algebra of Love	p. 134
Notes	p. 150
The Eastern Path of Exile: Russian Women's Writing in China	p. 153
Notes	p. 172
Realist Prose Writers, 1881-1929	p. 175
Notes	p. 203
Women and Gender in Post-Symbolist Poetry and the Stalin Era	p. 207
Notes	p. 223
Writing the Female Body Politic (1945-1985)	p. 225
Notes	p. 240
In Their Own Words? Soviet Women Writers and the Search for Self	p. 243
Notes	p. 261
Women's Poetry Since the Sixties	p. 264
Notes	p. 275
The Persistence of Memory: Women's Prose Since the Sixties	p. 277
Notes	p. 295
Perestroika and Post-Soviet Prose: from Dazzle to Dispersal	p. 297
Notes	p. 311
Bibliographical Guide to Writers and Their Works	p. 313
Guide to Further Reading	p. 365
Index	p. 380
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