Autobiographies 20th century

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Nicole,

It's a belated response to your  question regards women's
autobiographical writing published in the 20th century or related to it.

I think that you might be interested in considering a few items below such as:

1. Marja Rytkonen. Women's Histories: Autobiographical Texts by
Contemporary Russian Women, Helsinki, 2001. (she writes on Emma
Gerstein, Svetlana Aleksievich, Elena Bonner, Maria Arbatova).

http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/publications/ap_1-2001.pdf

2. Emma Gershtein. Memuary, St Petersburg, 1998. (translated as Moscow
Memoirs, translated by John Crowfoot, The Harvill Press, 2004). This
book was awarded a small Booker prize.

3. Bella Akhmadulina. Mnogo sobak I sobaka: Proza razykh let. Eksmo,
2005. (it includes essays, memoirs,passages from her diaries, etc.).

4. Petrushevskaia, L. malen'kaia devochka iz Metropolia, St
Petersburg, Amfora, 2006.

5. Vasilenko, Svetlana. Novye amazonki. (Moscow, 2001):
http://www.m-m.sotcom.ru/11-13/vasilen4.htm

6. On Nadezhda Mandelshtam's memoirs and Chukovskaya's
autobiographical writing see: Beth Holmgren, Women's Works in Stalin's
Time. On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Bloomington and
Indianapolis 1993)

7.Pushkareva, Natalia. Women in Russian History,  1997. (translated by
Eve Leven). (See the details for the Russian version located at this  
website address: http://www.pushkareva.da.ru/)

8.Some women memoirs are discussed in this book: Holmgren, Beth,
editor. "The Russian Memoir: History and Literature" (Evanston:
Northwestern University Press, 2003).

9. On Tsvetaeva's autobiographical writing see: Karin Grelz. Beyond  
the Noise of Time: Readings of Marina Tsvetaeva?s Memories of  
Childhood, (Stockholm Studies in Russian Literature 35), Stockholm,  
2004.

All best,
Alexandra


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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk

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