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Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women (Exsoviet and American Women)
Susan Aiken
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Description for Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women (Exsoviet and American Women)
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 14ill. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DQ; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 817.
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.
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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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham, NC
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822313908
SKU
V9780822313908
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About Susan Aiken
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women (Exsoviet and American Women)
"Culture has always been aware of borders; but the reader of this comparative source-book and study of women writers American and ex-Soviet will experience the transcending of borders. As cross-disciplinary studies gain ground in our universities, this may well become a landmark book."—Barbara Heldt, University of British Columbia "[This] book is pioneering. It is original and intellectually enterprising."—Catharine R. Stimpson, ... Read more