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Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance / Elizabeth A. Skomp and Benjamin M. Sutcliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skomp, Elizabeth, author.
- Sutcliffe, Benjamin M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ulit͡skai͡a, Li͡udmila--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ulit͡skai͡a, Li͡udmila.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a crucial cultural figure in contemporary Russia, garnering both literary awards and best-seller status. Engaging with the past to combat the creeping authoritarianism of the Putin era, she has become the latest in a long line of Russian dissident authors championing the values of liberalism and tolerance while critiquing the state. Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance is the first English-language book about this influential writer, contextualizing her in the shifting landscape of post-Soviet society and culture. Drawing on interviews with Ulitskaya and sources not readily available to Western scholars, Elizabeth A. Skomp and Benjamin M. Sutcliffe explore the ethical ideals that make Ulitskaya's novels resonate in today's Russia-tolerance, sincerity, and diversity-and examine how she uses innovative imagery to personalize history through a focus on body and kinship. This is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russian literature and society.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword: Indivisibility and the Threads that Bind by Helena Goscilo; Acknowledgments; Authors' Notes; Introduction: Myths of the Post-Soviet Writer; 1. Redeeming the Body: Ulitskaya and Corporeality; 2. Ideas that Bind: Kinship as Metaphor; 3. An Obession with History: Ulitskaya's Intelligentsia Writes the Past; 4. Writing Tolerance: Morality and Ulitskaya's Theology of Inclusion; Conclusion: Ulitskaya, Intelligentsia, and the Ethics of the Ordinary; Appendix: Major Works by Ulitskaya, 1988-2013; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780299304133
- 0299304132
- OCLC:
- 910823838
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