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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slobin, Greta Nachtailer, author.

Contributor:

Clark, Katerina, editor.

Series:

Real twentieth century.

The real twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles' writings, Russian--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, Russian.

Literature and state--Russia.

Literature and state.

Literature and state--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages).

Other Title:

Russians Abroad

Place of Publication:

Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Summary:

"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."--P. [4] of cover.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.