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Record Nr.

UNINA9910251405603321

Autore

Slobin Greta N

Titolo

Russians abroad [[electronic resource] ] : literary and cultural politics of diaspora (1919-1939) / / Greta N. Slobin ; edited by Katerina Clark ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2013

ISBN

1-61811-699-1

1-61811-215-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

The real twentieth century

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkKaterina

Disciplina

305.89

Soggetti

Russians - Foreign countries

Soviet Union Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Defining émigré borders and missions in the twenties -- pt. II. Diaspora : the classical literary canon and its evolutions -- pt. III. Modernism and the diaspora's quest for literary identity -- pt. IV. Epilogue : the first-wave diaspora in the post-war years.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided amongst themselves and uncertain about the political and artistic directions of life in the diaspora, these writers carried on two simultaneous literary dialogues: with the emerging Soviet Union and with the dizzying world of European modernism that surrounded them in the West. The book's chapters address generational differences, literary polemics and experimentation, the heritage of pre-October Russian modernism, and the fate of individual writers and critics, offering a sweeping view of how exiles created a literary diaspora. The discussion moves beyond Russian studies to contribute to today's broad, cross-cultural study of the creative side of political and cultural displacement.