Russians abroad : : literary and cultural politics of diaspora (1919-1939) /

Russians abroad : : literary and cultural politics of diaspora (1919-1939) / / Greta N. Slobin ; edited by Katerina Clark [and three others].

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"The book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided amongst themselves and uncertain about the po...

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Superior document:The real twentieth century
VerfasserIn:
Slobin, Greta Nachtailer,
TeilnehmendeR:
Clark, Katerina,
Place / Publishing House:Brighton, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Real twentieth century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (255 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the October split and its consequences
  • part I. Defining émigré borders and missions in the twenties. Border-crossings in postrevolutionary exile (1919-1924) : the embrace of Shklovskian "estrangement"
  • Language, history, ideology : Tsvetaeva, Remizov
  • Double exposure in exile writing : Khodasevich, Teffi, Bunin, Nabokov
  • pt. II. Diaspora : the classical literary canon and its evolutions. The battle for the modernists' Gogol : Bely and Remizov
  • Sirin/Dostoevsky and the question of Russian modernism in emigration
  • Russia abroad champions Turgenev's legacy
  • pt. III. Modernism and the diaspora's quest for literary identity. Modernism/modernity in the postrevolutionary diaspora
  • Double consciousness and bilingualism in Aleksei Remizov's story "The industrial horseshoe" and the literary journal Chisla
  • pt. IV. Epilogue : the first-wave diaspora in the post-war years. The shift from the old world to the new
  • "Homecoming"
  • Greta Slobin : bio-bibliography.

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