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The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin
ISBN: 9780299232047 | 0299232042
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Pub. Date: 3/6/2009
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Both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyday life and the domestic sphere served as an ideological battleground, simultaneously threatening Stalinist control and challenging traditional Russian gender norms that had been shaken by the Second World War.The Prose of Lifeexamines how six female authors employed images of daily life to depict womenrs"s experience in Russian culture from the 1960s to the present.Byt, a term connoting both the everyday and its many petty problems, is an enduring yet neglected theme in Russian lite... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Engendering Byt in Soviet Culture | p. 3 |
| Documenting Women's Byt during the Thaw and Stagnation: Natal'ia Baranskaia and I. Grekova | p. 24 |
| Perestroika and the Emergence of Women's Prose: Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Tat'iana Tolstaia, and Women's Anthologies | p. 58 |
| The Artistry of Everyday Life: Liudmila Ulitskaia, Svetlana Vasilenko, and Post-Soviet Women's Anthologies | p. 99 |
| Con... MORE | p. 130 |
| Notes | p. 137 |
| Bibliography | p. 181 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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Benjamin Sutcliffe is assistant professor of Russian at Miami University.
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