20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"

[Nicole Mathys]

Dear Julia,
I'd suggest Nina Berberovas autobiography "Kursiv moi". There, she has big 
portrets about important writers 20th centuary, with which she met: Gor'kij, 
Bunin, Nabokov, Gipius, Cvetaeva, Akhmatova, Khodasevich, Belyj, Blok, 
Gumelev,  and more else.
Best wishes
Nicole
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Dear colleagues,

I am wondering if you could offer me some pragmatic and helpful suggestions. 
This summer I am working to develop an undergraduate course called "Women in 
Russian Literature." The specifics of our situation is that this is the only 
way at present time that we can quickly get a course in 20th-century Russian 
Literature that we sorely need through curriculum committees (it already 
exists on the books) and also enroll it (by cross-listing with Women Studies 
and English).
Therefore, we have a double goal: there should be a women studies component 
to it BUT PRIMARILY it should be a course in 20th-century Russian 
Literature.. Women can be both authors (I am certainly planning to include 
Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, and Gippius) and characters/subject/conceptual focus, 
which makes it easier to include the most important 20th-century male 
authors.

I was wondering if you could help me by offering suggestions
a) about the specific texts/authors to use (other than the three women 
authors mentioned above) that would be both the highlights of 20th-century 
R.Lit. and/or have important women characters/protagonists (OR concept of 
femininity at the work’s center, like, e.g., Blok’s Russia=eternal 
femininity concept).
b) a theoretical perspective that a course aimed at fulfilling such a dual 
purpose could use.

I will be grateful for and looking forward to all suggestions, on or off the 
list,

Julia







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Julia Trubikhina

Assistant Professor of Russian
Russian Program Coordinator
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Montclair State University
Dickson Hall, Room 138
Montclair, NJ 07043










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