Russians abroad
Subtitle: literary and cultural politics of diaspora (1919-1939)
By: Greta N. Slobin ; edited by Katerina Clark, Nancy Condee, Dan Slobin, and Mark Slobin
Contributors: Clark, Katerina, editor; Condee, Nancy, editor; Slobin, Dan Isaac, 1939- editor; Slobin, Mark, editor
Series: Real twentieth century; Real twentieth century
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781618118257; 9781618112149
Subjects: Exiles' writings, Russian; History and criticism; Literature and state; Russian literature
Description: "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 political and artistic directions of life in the diaspora, these writers carried on two simultaneous literary dialogues: with the emerging Soviet Union and with the dizzying world of European modernism that surrounded them in the West. Chapters address generational differences, literary polemics and experimentation, the heritage of pre-October Russian modernism, and the fate of individual writers and critics, offering a sweeping view of how exiles created a literary diaspora. The discussion moves beyond Russian studies to contribute to today's broad, cross-cultural study of the creative side of political and cultural displacement."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the October split and its consequences; title: pt. I. Defining émigré borders and missions in the twenties. Border-crossings in postrevolutionary exile (1919-1924) : the embrace of Shklovskian "estrangement"; title: Language, history, ideology : Tsvetaeva, Remizov; title: Double exposure in exile writing : Khodasevich, Teffi, Bunin, Nabokov; title: pt. II. Diaspora : the classical literary canon and its evolutions. The battle for the modernists' Gogol : Bely and Remizov; title: Sirin/Dostoevsky and the question of Russian modernism in emigration; title: Russia abroad champions Turgenev's legacy; title: pt. III. Modernism and the diaspora's quest for literary identity. Modernism/modernity in the postrevolutionary diaspora; title: Double consciousness and bilingualism in Aleksei Remizov's story "The industrial horseshoe" and the literary journal Chisla; title: pt. IV. Epilogue : the first-wave diaspora in the post-war years. The shift from the old world to the new; title: "Homecoming"; title: Greta Slobin : bio-bibliography.