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Zusatztext "This volume is the first book-length study of Russian children's literature in English! and as such it is particularly welcome."-- Children's Literature Association Quarterly! Vol. 24! No. 1! Spring 2009 Informationen zum Autor Marian Balina is Professor Russian at Illinois Wesleyan University. She has co-edited a number of collections, including Politiciing Magic: Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales (2005), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers Since 1980 (2003), and Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Empire Style (2000). Larissa Rudova is Associate Professor of Russian at Pomona College. She is author of Pasternak's Early Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard (1994) and Understanding Boris Pasternak (1997). Klappentext Soviet literature in general and Soviet children's literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children's literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of children's culture, from literature to comics to theater to film, in the formation of Soviet social identity and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society. Zusammenfassung Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of children’s culture, from literature to comics to theater to film, in the formation of Soviet social identity and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Foreword Preface INTRODUCTION: Reading Soviet and Post-Soviet Children's Culture: Contexts and Challenges 1. Creativity through Restraint: The Beginnings of Soviet Children's Literature Marina Balina 2. From Character Building to Criminal Pursuits: Russian Children's Literature in Transition PART I Ideology, Literature, and Culture: Genres, Themes, and Issues 3. The Whole Real Children's World: School Novella and "Our Happy Childhood" Evgeny Dobrenko 4. Between Sputnik and Gagarin: Space Flight, Children's Periodicals, and the Circle of Imagination Anindita Banerjee 5. Crafting the Self: Narratives of Pre-Revolutionary Childhood in Soviet Literature Marina Balina 6. Literature and Cultural Institutions By and For Soviet and Post-Soviet Youth Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya PART II Popular Children's Entertainment 7. Arresting Development: A Brief History of Soviet Cinema for Children and Adolescents Alexandr Prokhorov (College of William and Mary) 8. Comforting Creatures in Children's Cartoons Birgit Beumers (U of Bristol) 9. Juggernaut in Drag: Theater for Stalin's Children Boris Wolfson (USC) 10. 'Nice, Instructive Stories Their Psychology Can Grasp': How to Read Post-Soviet Russian Children's Comics Jose Alaniz (U of Washington) PART III: Authors and Texts 11. Samuil Marshak-Yesterday and Today Ben Hellman (University of Helsinki) 12. Lev Kassil': Childhood as Religion and Ideology Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Eugene Lang College, The New School) 13. Pavel Bazhov's Skazy: Discovering the Soviet Uncanny Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado) 14. A Traditionalist in the Land of Innovators: the Paradoxes of Sergei Mikhalkov Elen...
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This volume explores the importance of children’s culture, from literature to comics, to theater and film, in the formation of Soviet social identity, and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society.
