Out of the USSR
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Edited by:
Eva Hausbacher
About this book
This book examines how women authors recall their own and their families’ past lives after having emigrated from the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and how they reflect on their new country of residence, be it Germany, Austria, Israel, USA, or Finland, among others. The chapters connect migration, memory, and gender studies to analyse literary presentations created by these "travelling" women.
The aim of the book is to pay attention both to women’s contribution to cultural transfer, and to the mobility of memories: for the first time, it brings women’s narratives as a form and tool to work through both individual and collective traumas to the forefront, remedying a long-standing omission in Russian and post-Soviet migration history. At the same time, the volume looks at "travelling" memories and cultural traumas from a gendered perspective: what happens when the recollections of women’s traumatic experiences of Soviet history travel through time and space?
As this volume argues, narratives by women who left the Soviet Union often call into question official accounts of Soviet history, and rewrite them in a way that makes room for gendered lived experience.
Author / Editor information
Viola Parente-Čapková, Prof. Dr., Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku, Finland; Arja Rosenholm, Prof. Dr. emerita, Russian Language and Culture, Faculty of Information Technologies and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Finland; Marja Sorvari, Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, Finland; Eva Hausbacher, Prof. Dr., Department of Slavic Studies/University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Topics
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I Mediating Eastern Memory Discourses
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Close Distances: Narratives of the Soviet Past in Russian-German Women’s Writings
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When Mother is Sick: Generations of Memory and Fictional (Re)mediation of Multiple Belongings
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Another Museum of Abandoned Secrets: Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein by Sasha Marianna Salzmann
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Contemporary Ukrainian Writers as “Masters of Dialogue” in the German Literary and Media Landscape
75 - II Travelling Memory and Ethnocultural Identity
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Memory, History and Ethnocultural Identity in Dina Rubina’s Autobiographical Stories of Travel and Emigration
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Women and Memory on the Move in the Novels Die Stille bei Neu-Landau by Katharina Martin-Virolainen and Varjele varjoani by Anna Soudakova
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Sofi Oksanen – Contested Memories in Bloodlands Fiction
135 - III Language Belongings and Bodily Identities
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Languages of Memory in the Bilingual Poetry of Katia Kapovich
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The Visual Architecture of an Evolving Diasporic Identity: Anya Ulinich’s Sasha Goldberg
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Geocorporeality and the Unbeautiful Body in Contemporary Russian-American Fiction
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Finding your Language: Language and Identity in Dess Terentyeva’s Fiction
223 - IV Displacement and Integration
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“Memory of Migration – Migration of Memory”: Essays of the Last Soviet Generation of Women Abroad
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Life Stories of the Russian-speaking Women Abroad: Similarities and Differences
269 - V In Her Own Voice
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Russian Femme, Finnish Author
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Travelling with Geopoetics: A Revue on Migration Management
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The Authors
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Index
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