"A Mind Purified by Suffering" : : Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs / / ed. by Olga M. Cooke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Artwińska, Anna,; Cooke, Olga M.,; Duda, Kathryn,; Heldt, Barbara,; Kolchevska, Natasha,; Komaromi, Ann,; Kopelev, Lev,; MacKinnon, Elaine,; Orlova, Raisa,; Popescu-Sandu, Oana,; Tołczyk, Dariusz,; Volynska, Rimma,
• HerausgeberIn: Cooke, Olga M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Russian Thought in Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

“A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs represents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps, Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The contributors address Ginzburg’s Gulag experience through various vantage points, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. The volume also provides a history of prison camp writings, capped with her biography, analysis of her correspondence with her son, Vasily Aksenov, and an interview with him.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Contributors -- 1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: The Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg -- 2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia Ginzburg’s Krutoi marshrut -- 3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska -- 4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of Vulnerability -- 5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Reconceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag Experience -- 6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag Writers -- 7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag -- 8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the Whirlwind -- 9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976) -- 10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrut -- 11. Interview with Vasily Aksenov -- Photographs -- Index