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

[Deborah Hoffman]

You could try Petrushevskaia's Svoi krug, trans. Helena Goscilo or Vremia noch' trans. Sally Laird.
   
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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=3Deternal femininity concept).
>b) a theoretical perspective that a course aimed at fulfilling such a =
>dual purpose could use.


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