Dialogues/Dialogi

Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

AvSusan Aiken,Adele Marie Barker,Maya Koreneva,Ekaterina Stetsenko

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Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book juxtaposes fiction by American and Soviet women from the 1960s to the present to reveal their similarities and differences and to show how questions of gender, race, and ethnicity are enacted in the societies and psyches each text represents. Begun in the early days of glasnost and completed in 1992, the book conveys the spirit and excitement of an unprecedented critical conversation conducted during a time of historic transformation.Dialogues/Dialogi pairs stories by Tillie Olsen, Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Leslie Marmon Silko (reprinted here in full) with Russian stories by I. Grekova, Liudmila Petrushevskaya, Elena Makarova, and Anna Nerkagi, many of them appearing here for the first time in English. Exquisite in their stylistic and thematic variety, suggestive of the range of women's experience and fiction in both countries, each story is the subject of paired interpretive essays by an American and an (ex)Soviet critic from among the book's authors. A colloquy of diverse voices speaking together in multiple, mutually illuminating exchanges, Dialogues/Dialogi testifies to the possibility of evolving relationships among women across borders once considered impassable.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1993-12-22
Mått157 x 234 x 33 mm
Vikt816 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor440
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822313908

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Acknowledgments ixPreface xiiiNotes on Transliteration and Editing xixBeginnings 11 1. Ladies Hairdresser / Grekova 43Tell me a Riddle / Tillie Olsen 88Stages of Dissent: Olsen, Grekova, and the Politics of Creativity / Susan Hardy Aiken 120Revolutions from Within / Ekaterina Stetsenko 141Dialogue 1582 Witchbird / Toni Cade Bambara 163That Kind of Girl / Liudmila Petrushevskaia 178Children of the Sixties / Maya Koreneva 191Telling the Other('s) Story, or, the Blues in Two languages / Susan Hardy Aiken 206Dialogue 2243 Home / Jayne Anne Phillips 229Needlefish / Elena Makarova 242The World of Our Mothers / Adele Marie Barker 253Hopes and Nightmares of the Young / Maya Koreneva 266Dialogue 2794 Aniko of the Nogo Tribe / Anna Nerkagi 285Storyteller / Leslie Marmon SIlko 312Retelling the Legends / Ekaterino Stetsenko 327Crossings / Adele Marie Barker 340Dialogue 354Afterword: Histories and Fictions 357Selected Bibliography 393Index 409

"Culture has always been aware of borders; but the reader of this comparative source-book and study of women writers American and ex-Soviet will experience the transcending of borders. As cross-disciplinary studies gain ground in our universities, this may well become a landmark book."-Barbara Heldt, University of British Columbia "[This] book is pioneering. It is original and intellectually enterprising."-Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University