Slobin, Greta,

Russians Abroad : Literary and Cultural Politics of Diaspora (1919-1939) / Greta Slobin; Nancy Condee, Katerina Clark, Mark Slobin, Dan Slobin. - Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017] ©2013 - 1 online resource (260 p.) - Real Twentieth Century .

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- How This Book Came About -- Introduction: The October Split and Its Consequences -- Part I. Defining Émigré Borders and Missions in the Twenties -- Chapter IA. Border-Crossings in Postrevolutionary Exile (1919-1924): The Embrace of Shklovskian "Estrangement" -- Chapter IB. Language, History, Ideology: Tsvetaeva, Remizov -- Chapter IC. Double Exposure in Exile Writing: Khodasevich, Teffi, Bunin, Nabokov -- Part II. Diaspora: The Classical Literary Canon and Its Evolutions -- Chapter IIA. The Battle for the Modernists' Gogol: Bely and Remizov -- Chapter IIB. Sirin/Dostoevsky and the Question of Russian Modernism in Emigration -- Chapter IIC. Russia Abroad Champions Turgenev's Legacy -- Part III. Modernism and the Diaspora's Quest for Literary Identity -- Chapter IIIA. Modernism/Modernity in the Postrevolutionary Diaspora -- Chapter IIIB. Double Consciousness and Bilingualism in Aleksei Remizov's Story "The Industrial Horseshoe" and the Literary Journal Chisla -- Part IV. Epilogue: The First-Wave Diaspora in the Post-War Years -- Chapter IVA. The Shift from the Old World to the New -- Chapter IVB. "Homecoming" -- Greta Slobin: Bio-Bibliography -- List of Works Cited -- Index

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This 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. The book's 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.


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9781618116994

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Immigrants--Europe.
Russians--Intellectual life.--Foreign countries
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.