what texts or film should I assign to address queer identities in Russia?

[Olia Prokopenko]

Just remembered: there are references to gay culture in Russia in a  2012
film about boxers, "Sterva".
Olia
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Olia Prokopenko,
Instructor,Russian Program Adviser

Anderson Hall 551
FGIS, Temple University,
1114 W.Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
tel. (215)-204-1768
oprokop at temple.edu

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Gabriella Safran <gsafran at stanford.edu>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> For a class next year on Russian identity and alterity as explored in
> literature and film over time, I'd like to include a week of discussion of
> queer identity.  I'd like to assign something under 200 pages of reading
> available in English translation, perhaps some stories, poems, a novella,
> from any period (or a mix from various periods - Imperial, Soviet,
> post-Soviet) as well as a film.  Any suggestions?
> take care,
> Gabriella
>
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> Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
> Stanford University
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