Engendering Slavic literatures
By: edited by Pamela Chester & Sibelan Forrester.
Contributors: Chester, Pamela, 1951-; Forrester, Sibelan E. S.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Slavic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women in literature.; Slavic literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Slavic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Slavic countries.
Description: Engendering Slavic Literatures breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, film theory, and lesbian and gender theory, the authors interrogate the received notions of Western gender studies to see which can be usefully applied to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slavic literary works.

Motherhood and the relationships of mothers and daughters; the myths of selfhood that shape the autobiographies of Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Lev Tolstoy; Polish Catholicism and sexuality; portrayals of landscape in verbal and visual art; and women writers' transgressive ventures into male bastions such as the love lyric and prose fiction are among the themes of this important and innovative volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.