Post-Sov cultural studies reading
Inna Tigountsova
itigount at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA
Fri Sep 3 19:27:48 UTC 2004
Dear Nick,
"Dictionary of Literary Biography", Vol. 285: Russian Writers since 1980,
Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky, eds., Detroit/NY: Gale, 2003, has an
article on Pelevin by Gerald McCausland, pp. 208-219. It includes a
bibliography (most of it - in English). This dictionary can also be
helpful, if you decide to include other contemporary writers in your
course. An Oxford U Press book - "Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews
with Ten Contemporary Writers", Sally Laird, ed. - has an interview with
Pelevin(pp. 178-192).
On visual arts, you could try websites of National Centers for
Contemporary Art (there are quite a few in different Russian cities).
Hope this helps.
Yours,
Inna Tigountsova
PhD candidate
Dept. of Slavic Languages and
Literatures
University of Toronto
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Nick Baron wrote:
> Dear List
>
> I wonder if any of you can help me with this query. I'm teaching a course
> this year on Russian 20th century cultural history. Being an historian, I'm
> not very familiar with the more contemporary materials. I'd like to ask
> students to read some of Pelevin's short stories (I had in mind 'A werewolf
> problem in central Russia', 'Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream', 'Tai Shou Chuan
> USSR'), and to watch 'Prisoner of the Mountains' ('Kavkazskii plennik')
> and 'Brat'.
>
> Does anyone know of any decent critical studies on Pelevin or these two
> films.
>
> Also can people identify useful general studies of contemporary
> representations of national identity and masculinity in literature, film
> and the visual arts.
>
> I've tried searching on jstor, and via internet search engines, and come up
> with very little indeed.
>
> The students can only read English, konechno, and texts should be readily
> available in the UK ...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nick
>
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