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The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin

The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin

Sutcliffe, Benjamin M.

Paperback

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0299232042
ISBN13: 9780299232047
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Feb 6 2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.48 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyday life and the domestic sphere served as an ideological battleground, simultaneously threatening Stalinist control and challenging traditional Russian gender norms that had been shaken by the Second World War. The Prose of Life examines how six female authors employed images of daily life to depict women's experience in Russian culture from the 1960s to the present. Byt, a term connoting both the everyday and its many petty problems, is an enduring yet neglected theme in Russian literature: its very ordinariness causes many critics to ignore it. Benjamin Sutcliffe's study is the first sustained examination of how and why everyday life as a literary and philosophical category catalyzed the development of post-Stalinist Russian women's prose, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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