Russians abroad : literary and cultural politics of diaspora (1919-1939) / Greta N. Slobin ; edited by Katerina Clark, Nancy Condee, Dan Slobin, and Mark Slobin.

"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 po...

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Main Author: Slobin, Greta Nachtailer
Other Authors: Clark, Katerina, Condee, Nancy, Slobin, Dan Isaac, 1939-, Slobin, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the October split and its consequences
  • pt. 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.