Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture : Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture

The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. This volume may thus be said to engage not only women's artistic production but, indeed, the best and most colourful of recent Russian culture. Treating contemporary Russian women's creativity, it approaches women's texts, films, and canvasses from a range of perspectives, from anti-gendered to feminist. Some of the essays introduce writers not previously well studied, others challenge conventional interpretations and assumptions, while still others yield original viewpoints through novel juxtapositions. In addition to offering insights into the various artists under analysis, the essays map the wide terrain of issues and methodologies proliferating in cultural criticism today, and mirror the diversity that is one of the most appealing features of women's creativity in contemporary Russia. Bakhtin And Women: A Nontopic With Immense Implications / Caryl Emerson -- Bakhtin's Concept Of The Grotesque And The Art Of Petrushevskaia And Tolstaia / Natalʹia Ivanova -- Soviet Russian Women's Literature In The Early 1980's / Nicholas Žekulin -- The Poetics Of Banality: Tatʹiana Tolstaia, Lana Gogoberidze, And Larisa Zvezdochetova / Svetlana Boym -- The Creation Of Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandelʹshtam / Beth Holmgren -- The Canon And The Backward Glance: Akhmatova, Lisnianskaia, Petrovykh, Nikolaeva / Stephanie Sandler -- Speaking Bodies: Erotic Zones Rhetoricized / Helena Goscilo -- Games Women Play: The Erotic Prose Of Valeriia Narbikova / Nadya L. Peterson -- Happy Never After: The Work Of Viktoriia Tokareva And Glasnostʹ / Richard Chapple -- Leaving Paradise And Perestroika: A Week Like Any Other And Memorial Day By Natalʹia Baranskaia / Thomas Lahusen -- Iuliia Voznesenskaia's Women: With Love And Squalor / Jerzy Kolodziej -- The Heartfelt Poetry Of Elena Shvarts / Darra Goldstein -- Reflections, Crooked Mirrors, Magic Theaters: Tatʹiana Tostaia's Peters / John R. Givens. Edited By Helena Goscilo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The 1980s witnessed the ascendancy of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. In a treatment of contemporary Russian women's creativity, this text approaches women's texts, films, and canvasses from a range of perspectives.