Uncensored
Subtitle: Samizdat novels and the quest for autonomy in Soviet dissidence
By: Ann Komaromi
Series: Studies in Russian literature and theory; Studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780810131231; 9780810131866
Subjects: Underground press publications; History and criticism; Russian fiction; Underground literature; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing the free self : cultural autonomy and the dissident subject in the late Soviet era; title: Literature and the field of dissidence; title: Aksenov's The burn : searing the hearts of men; title: Bitov's Pushkin House : deconstructing the late Soviet subject; title: On the knife's edge : Venichka's performance in Moscow stations; title: Samizdat and the extra-Gutenberg condition; title: Conclusion. Soviet dissidence and critical subjectivity in an extra-Gutenberg age.