Tolstaia panel

[Melissa Frazier]

Dear Seelangers,

I'm posting this on behalf of Hilde Hoogenboom:


Panel "Sofia Andreevna Tolstaia: Lives, Works & Reevaluations" for the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 46th Annual Convention, November 20-23, 2014, in San Antonio, TX. In search of 2 panelists interested in presenting a paper on any aspect of her work. The panel proposal deadline is next Wednesday, January 15. Please contact Hilde.hoogenboom at asu.edu

This panel presents ongoing reevaluations of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaia (1844-1919), begun in 2010, the anniversary year of Tolstoy's death. Publications include her biography in the series Lives of Remarkable People, Alexandra Popoff's Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography, her autobiography My Life in full in Russian for the first time and in English translation, which in 2011 was award the MLA's Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, and two tales Tolstaia wrote in rebuttal to Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. In 2011, Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: Literary Works, in Russian and in English translation (528 pages) was published, and a review article appeared on the state of the field by Hugh McLean. A bibliography of her work includes her autobiography, diaries, memoirs, letters, tales, children's stories, and poetry, with over a dozen publications during her lifetime. Yet as a writer, she is even overlooked by dictionaries of women writers. Her contentious marriage and literary partnership with Tolstoy, recently recast in the film The Last Station (2009), where Tolstaia is played by Helen Mirren, have long overshadowed evaluations of her life and hindered the publication of her works. This panel reexamines Tolstaia's historical legacies.


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Melissa Frazier
Russian Language and Literature
Sarah Lawrence College
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY 10708
914-395-2295
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