How Women Must Write

Inventing the Russian Woman Poet

AvOlga Peters Hasty

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Studies in Russian Literature and Theory

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How Women Must Write studies how women who write poems were invented in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia by women poets themselves, readers who derived poets of their own design from women’s poems, and male poets who fabricated women and wrote poems on their behalf. These distinct vantage points on how the Russian woman poet is constituted foreground the complex interactions between writing women and their readers within ever-shifting social, political, and cultural power structures. Hasty’s exploration takes us from an emphatically male Romantic age to a modernist period preoccupied with women’s creativity but also its containment. Each chapter studies an episode from Russian cultural history. The first part explores the successes and vulnerabilities of Karolina Pavlova and Evdokiia Rostopchina, who lay the groundwork for women writing after them. The second part examines two women invented by men: Cherubina de Gabriak and Briusov’s Nelli, who reflect the establishment’s efforts to retain command over women’s writing in the Silver Age. Last, Hasty examines Marina Tsvetaeva’s and Anna Akhmatova’s challenges to male authority. Illuminating these writers and characters not as passive victims of gender-driven limitations and disincentives but rather as purposeful actors realizing themselves creatively and advancing the woman poet’s cause, How Women Must Write will appeal to the general reader as well as to specialists in Russian literature, women’s studies, and cultural history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-15
Mått:154 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt:633 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9780810140943

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OLGA PETERS HASTY is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Tsvetaeva’s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word and Pushkin’s Tatiana and, with Susanne Fusso, of America through Russian Eyes, 1874–1926.

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“This stimulating, valuable new book asks us to rethink the Russian tradition in light of its remarkable women poets and the stories of how they were invented. The case studies are well chosen and varied. Concepts like reader-imposed censorship and the masquerades of gender suggest new vantage points on many other poets as well. The rereading of Tsvetaeva’s gendered poetics and the analysis of Briusov’s Nelli are especially strong, as is the splendid work on the dynamics of competition and connection between women poets.” —Stephanie Sandler, coauthor of History of Russian Literature“Hasty eloquently describes the impediments that nineteenth- and twentieth-century women poets encountered in their attempts to gain admission to the Russian poetic tradition on equal terms with men. Her case studies, revealing the strategies that women poets developed to resist the gender norms, expectations, and male fantasies of the tradition’s gatekeepers, add an important, previously overlooked aspect to the history of Russian poetry.” —Diana Greene, author of Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century