Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women
Stetsenko, Ekaterina,Koreneva, Maya,Barker, Adele Marie,Aiken, Susan
ISBN 10: 0822313901 ISBN 13: 9780822313908
Published by Duke University Press Books, 1993
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Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book juxtaposes fiction by American and Soviet women from the 1960s to the present to reveal their similarities and differences and to show how questions of gender, race, and ethnicity are enacted in the societies and psyches each text represents. Begun in the early days of glasnost and completed in 1992, the book conveys the spirit and excitement of an unprecedented critical conversation conducted during a time of historic transformation.
Dialogues/Dialogi pairs stories by Tillie Olsen, Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Leslie Marmon Silko (reprinted here in full) with Russian stories by I. Grekova, Liudmila Petrushevskaya, Elena Makarova, and Anna Nerkagi, many of them appearing here for the first time in English. Exquisite in their stylistic and thematic variety, suggestive of the range of women's experience and fiction in both countries, each story is the subject of paired interpretive essays by an American and an (ex)Soviet critic from among the book's authors.
A colloquy of diverse voices speaking together in multiple, mutually illuminating exchanges, Dialogues/Dialogi testifies to the possibility of evolving relationships among women across borders once considered impassable.
Dialogues/Dialogi pairs stories by Tillie Olsen, Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Leslie Marmon Silko (reprinted here in full) with Russian stories by I. Grekova, Liudmila Petrushevskaya, Elena Makarova, and Anna Nerkagi, many of them appearing here for the first time in English. Exquisite in their stylistic and thematic variety, suggestive of the range of women's experience and fiction in both countries, each story is the subject of paired interpretive essays by an American and an (ex)Soviet critic from among the book's authors.
A colloquy of diverse voices speaking together in multiple, mutually illuminating exchanges, Dialogues/Dialogi testifies to the possibility of evolving relationships among women across borders once considered impassable.
About the Author:
Susan Hardy Aiken is Professor of English at the University of Arizona.
Adele Barker is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Maya Koreneva is a scholar at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow.
Ekaterina Stetsenko is a scholar at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow.
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Title: Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural ...
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good