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Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin’s purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors catalogues six interviews conducted by Duvakin. The interviewees talk about their most intimate life experiences and give personal accounts of their interactions with famous writers and artists such as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Marina Tsvetaeva. They offer insights into the world of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris, the uprising against the Communist government, what it was like to work at the United Nations after the Second World War, and other important aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.
Archival photographs, as well as hundreds of annotations to the text, are included to help readers understand the historical and cultural context of the interviews. The unique and previously unpublished materials in Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors will be of great interest to anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating period in Soviet history.
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Interview with Nina Dashevskaya: Changing the World through Young Readers
In early September 2019, the Moscow International Book Fair was held in a lively exhibition center in which publishers, authors, illustrators, and readers interacted with each other directly. A nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize, author Nina Dashevskaya, born May 23, 1979, was busy with her readers. She has published seven books for juveniles and won many Russian awards and recognitions for her writing. The following interview reveals a humble, introspective author.
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INCIDENTAL INSURGENTS: AN INTERVIEW WITH RUANNE ABOU RAHME
Abou Rahme talks about her work with Basel Abbas on Incidental Insurgents. Structured like an audio visual novel, the project focuses on the figure of the bandit, investigating archival and oral histories while insisting on the recovery and import of incidental insurgents in the history of revolutions and particularly in the history of Palestinian resistance against oppression.
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U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN AN AGE OF AMERICAN TRIUMPHALISM
In an interview, Stephen F. Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University and Professor of Politics Emeritus at Princeton University, talked about the US approach to Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, the role of history in shaping Russia's future, and the dangerous lack of debate within US policy-making circles. According to Cohen, modernization has been a political goal for centuries and it has almost always involved the same issue: whether people do it evolutionarily or through a revolutionary transformation imposed from above. The from-above, or \"leap,\" model is historically associated with Peter the Great and Stalin, and is non-democratic in nature. What worries him is that US policy toward Russia is abetting the neo-Stalinist side. Those people constantly remind Russia that in the 1930s Stalin used an impending foreign threat as the justification for an imposed, non-democratic modernization. Then the neo-Stalinists draw a parallel with today's NATO expansion to Russia's borders.
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\WHAT I FEEL I WAS PUT ON THE PLANET TO DO:\ An Interview with Wayne Caldwell
[...]around 1998 he began in earnest, producing two prize-winning short stories that soon grew into a very large manuscript and won for him a two-book contract with the prestigious publishing firm of Random House. The first volume to appear was Cataloochee (2007), a panoramic novel following four generations of North Carolina mountain people in the Cataloochee Valley from late in the Civil War to 1928, the beginning of their displacement by Federal authorities during absorption of their properties into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mountain people tend to think of themselves as a little bit more rugged and more independent than their counterparts in the flatlands. [...]another stereotype that appears is the government coming to take your land away and bring in tourists to see what they want to call the \"real mountain culture.\" The park was created twelve or thirteen years before I was born, and with my perspective now I can look around and see what we've done to the mountaintops outside the park, building condominiums, tearing down the forest, and so on, and then I can go to Cataloochee and I'm peaceful.
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Cultural Identity from \Habitus to au-delà\: Leïla Sebbar Encounters Her Algerian Father
I situate this interview with Franco-Algerian author Leïla Sebbar regarding her 2003 fictionalized memoir \"Je ne parle pas la langue de mon père\" (I Don't Speak My Father's Language) as Sebbar's response to the transition between colonial and postcolonial spaces of cultural identity. Whereas Bourdieu's habitus locates passive cultural identities in a rigidly hermetic space, structured by dualisms that are reminiscent of colonial dominance, Bhabha's introduction of the postcolonial \"beyond\" re-animates these identities through resistance to--and movement across--their boundaries. Sebbar and I examine how the internal ruptures of her personal narrative empower her to travel both within and across the spaces of her childhood's colonial-era, habitus-like identities (\"French\"/\"Algerian,\" \"non-\"/\"Muslim,\" \"wo\"/\"man\"). To some extent, such dualisms retain definitional dominance today by providing the terms upon which resistance is founded. Yet Sebbar's distinctive vision, her narration liberated from an anchored \"I\" or \"eye,\" exposes connections across her identities' internal boundaries, yielding, in turn, unexpected correspondences between the split signs we call our selves.
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Dreaming in Persian: An Interview with Novelist Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Peacock tells the story of seven generations of an Iranian Jewish family by wedding imagined stories to historical events in a style that frequently has been dubbed \"magical realism.\" In Nahai's books the female protagonists are frequently mothers who seek out self-imposed exiles from Iran-traversing vast physical and cultural distances as they do so-and the daughters who are left to make sense of their mothers' absences, their own connections to Iran, and, indeed, their fidelity to the very notions of home and belonging. In Tehran's Jewish ghetto, Alexandra the Cat surrounds herself with a shabby, glorious Russian-inspired gentility; on the Avenue of Faith, Fraulein Claude hoards European antiques and trinkets; in America, Mercedez the Movie Star buys herself a mansion fit for a Hollywood movie set. To teach writing, you have to learn to recognize areas of strength and weakness, to pinpoint the source of the weakness-both structurally and emotionally-and to offer advice as to how it might be remedied.
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