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

[Olga Meerson]

Iulechka, another thing: I have not suggested any later Russian women writers because I felt they were a fixture. Others' suggestiosn have confirmed. A particular story by Ulitskaia can also be good for a complex representation of a woman's vision in Russia: "Pikovaia dama". Her long novel Kazus Kukotskogo is important for both all of Soviet History AND the key feminist issues, e.g., abortion, contraseprives, childbirth, sore spots surrounding those within a family framework, etc. The movie was even better than the book--a bit less repetitive and stylistically purer.
o.m. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Olga Meerson <meersono at georgetown.edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:27 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] 20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"

> Woman's points of view in a male author: Detstvo Liuvers, 
> Women writers of prose: Evgeniia Ginzburg's and Nadezhda 
> Mandel'stam's memoirs. More later.
> o.m.
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> From: trubikhina at AOL.COM
> Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:16 am
> Subject: [SEELANGS] 20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"
> 
> > 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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