A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40148-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Slavic World

A Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film offers a comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic production for children. Its contributors contextualize and reevaluate Soviet children’s books, films, and animation and explore their contemporary re-appropriation by the Russian government, cultural practitioners, and educators.

Celebrating the centennial of Soviet children’s literature and film, the Companion reviews the rich and dramatic history of the canon. It also provides an insight into the close ties between Soviet children’s culture and Avant-Garde aesthetics, investigates early pedagogical experiments of the Soviet state, documents the importance of translation in children’s literature of the 1920-80s, and traces the evolution of heroic, fantastic, historical, and absurdist Soviet narratives for children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voronina, Olga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: ''The Only Universal National Text'': On the Centennial of
Soviet Children's Literature and Film
Olga Voronina

Forging a New Children's Culture: (R)evolution, Poetics,
Aesthetics

1 Unnatural Selection: A Natural History of Early Soviet Picturebooks
Sara Pankenier Weld

2 The Junctures of Child Psychology and Soviet Avant-Garde Film:

Representations, Influences, Applications
Ana Hedberg Olenina

3 The Dictionary as a Toy Collection: Interactions between Avant-Garde
Aesthetics and Soviet Children's Literature
Ainsley Morse

4 The Literary Avant-Garde and Soviet Literature for Children: OBERIU in the Leningrad Periodicals ?? and ???
Oleg Minin

Constructing Socialism, Building the Self: History, Ideology,
Narrative

5 Re-Imagining the Past for Future Generations: History as Fiction in
Soviet Children's Literature
Marina Balina

6 Education of the Soul, Bolshevik Style: Pedagogy in Soviet Children's
Literature from the 1920s to the early 1930s
Olga Voronina

7 ''Be Always Ready!'': Hero Narratives in Soviet Children's Literature
Svetlana Maslinskaya

8 Unspeakable Truths: Children of the Siege in Soviet Literature
Tatiana Voronina and Polina Barskova

New Approaches to the Avant-Garde: Reconstructing the
Canon

9 Children's Poetry and Translation in the Soviet Era: Strategies of
Rewriting, Transformation and Adaptation
Maria Khotimsky

10 Under the Hypnosis of Disney: Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Soviet Animation
for Children
Lora Wheeler Mjolsness

11 Embracing Eccentricity: ??????? and the Avant-Garde
Imagination
Larissa Rudova

12 The Queer Legacies of Late Socialism, or What Cheburashka and Gary
Shteyngart Have in Common
Anna Fishzon

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olga Voronina is Associate Professor of Russian at Bard College. She co-edited and co-translated, with Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov’s Letters to Véra (Knopf 2015/ Penguin, 2014), and published on Soviet children's literature, media discourse of the Cold War, Post-Soviet transformation of the Russian literary canon, and Nabokov’s art and metaphysics.