Sutcliffe, Benjamin M.

The Prose of Life : Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Engendering Byt in Soviet Culture -- 1 Documenting Women's Byt during the Thaw and Stagnation: Natal'ia Baranskaia and I. Grekova -- 2 Perestroika and the Emergence of Women's Prose: Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Tat'iana Tolstaia, and Women's Anthologies -- 3 The Artistry of Everyday Life: Liudmila Ulitskaia, Svetlana Vasilenko, and Post-Soviet Women's Anthologies -- Conclusion: Cultural Divides and the Future of Women's Prose -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Russian prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.
Women authors, Russian--21st century--Biography.
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