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Self and Story in Russian History: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965

Self and Story in Russian History: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965

Engelstein, Laura
Sandler, Stephanie

Paperback

Literary CriticismRussian History

ISBN10: 0801486688
ISBN13: 9780801486685
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Oct 10 2000
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.97
Language: English

Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which Russians have defined themselves as private persons and shaped their relation to the cultural community. The stories of self under consideration here reflect the perspectives of men and women from the last two hundred years, ranging from westernized nobles to simple peasants, from such famous people as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, and Nicholas II to lowly religious sectarians. Fifteen distinguished historians and literary scholars situate the narratives of self in their historical context and show how, since the eighteenth century, Russians have used expressive genres--including diaries, novels, medical case studies, films, letters, and theater--to make political and moral statements. The first book to examine the narration of self as idea and ideal in Russia, this vital work contemplates the shifting historical manifestations of identity, the strategies of self-creation, and the diversity of narrative forms. Its authors establish that there is a history of the individual in Russian culture roughly analogous to the one associated with the West.

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