Firefly in a Box

An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit

AvAnna Krushelnitskaya,Anna Krushelnitskaya

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Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. OushakineIn Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit, translators Anna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri Manin present a hybrid scholarly and literary volume of popular Russian-language Soviet children’s texts alongside essays that outline the significance and meanings behind these popular texts. The selection features both poetry and short prose, all of which are instantly recognizable to a Soviet native, and all of which hold cultural currency, potency, and valence similar to popular children’s literature in the United States, such as Green Eggs and Ham, Curious George, or Make Way for Ducklings. These texts have either never been translated into English before or appear in all-new translations, literary rather than literal; the featured original Soviet illustrations are reprinted for the English-reading market for the first time. Alongside the translations themselves is a scholarly component that guides Anglophone readers to experience mainstays of Soviet children’s writing. Essayists investigate literary material and perspectives using a broad range of approaches and methodologies applied to Soviet children’s literature. Topics include the Soviet literary canon, the beginning and evolution of Soviet children’s literature in the 1920s and 1930s, interactions between literary texts for children and folklore, and the interplay between Soviet and British children’s poetry.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultures of Childhood
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:University Press of Mississippi
ISBN:9781496856579

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Mer om författaren

Anna Krushelnitskaya is a translator whose work has been featured in Poems from the Front: A Moscow Anthology; Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems; Dislocation: An Anthology of Poetic Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine (as translator and coeditor); and Babi Yar and Other Poems by Ilya Ehrenburg. Dmitri Manin is a translator whose book-length works include Crow  by Ted Hughes (translated into Russian), Howl. Kaddish. Poems,  1952–1960 by Allen Ginsberg (translated into Russian), and Columns by Nikolai Zabolotsky (translated Into English).

Recensioner i media

"Valuable to ex-Soviet immigrant families and non-Russophone readers alike, these remarkably inventive, musical, memorable renditions show (not just tell) why these Soviet poems were so immensely popular. This is a unique and brilliantly executed book that is bound to find a wide audience." - Irina Mashinski, coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry and author of The Naked World.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionAnna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri ManinPART I: PoetryZinaida AleksandrovaMy Teddy Bear (1940)Agniya BartoMolly Made of Rubber (1930)Me and Tamara (1933)Chatterbox (1934)Toys (1936)Lovely Lyuba (1945)Valentin BerestovHide-and-Seek (1963)Sit-and-Read (1963)At Play (1966)Roosters (1966)Sick Doll (1966)Black Ice (1969)Sparrows (1971)Yelena BlagininaLet’s Sit Still (1940)Kornei ChukovskyGottascrub (1923)Squiggly Wiggly (1923)Zizzy Lizzy the Fly (1924)The Wondertree (1924)Old Theodora’s Trouble and Horror (1926)Daniil KharmsLiar (1930)What Was That? (1940)Samuil MarshakThe Tale of a Silly Mousie (1923)Who Is Who in a Zoo (1923)Scatterbrain (1930)Where the Sparrow Had Lunch (1934)Vladimir MayakovskyWhat Is Good and What Is Bad (1925)What to Be? (1929)Sergei MikhalkovMimosa (1935)What’s New with You (1935)PART II: ProseArkadii GaidarTale of a Great Military Secret and a Brave Boy Whose Word Was Firm (1933)Viktor DragunskyWhat I Love (1960). . . And What I Hate! (1960)All Secrets Come to Light (1961)He’s Alive and He Glows (1964)Valentin KatayevThe Seven-Petal Flower (1940)The Pipe and the Jug (1940)L. PanteleevHonest Word (1941)Part III: Practitioners’ Notes on Translating Soviet Children’s LiteratureKid Lit Not Split by a ColonAnna Krushelnitskaya"I Am Running, Running, Running, and I Cannot, Cannot Stop!": Meter in TranslationDmitri ManinPart IV: Scholarly EssaysTo Keep and to Expand: The Canon of Soviet Children’s Literature in Contemporary Publishing in RussiaSvetlana MaslinskayaIn the Interlude: The Search for Form and Method in Early Soviet Children’s PoetrySerguei Alex. OushakineAgniia Barto’s Fun Rhymes: Lost Toys, Torn Paws, and Emotional MaturationMarina BalinaPeople’s Stories for the Kids: Folklore in Soviet Children’s LiteratureSibelan ForresterBaa-baa People’s Sheep: On the Adventures of English Children’s Poetry in Soviet LiteratureAinsley Morse and Dmitri ManinBibliographyBiographiesIndex

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