Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Culture has always been aware of borders; but the reader of this comparative source-book and study of women writers American and ex-Soviet will experience the transcending of borders. As cross-disciplinary studies gain ground in our universities, this may well become a landmark book."—Barbara Heldt, University of British Columbia
"[This] book is pioneering. It is original and intellectually enterprising."—Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Preface xiii
Notes on Transliteration and Editing xix
Beginnings 1
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1. Ladies Hairdresser / Grekova 43
Tell me a Riddle / Tillie Olsen 88
Stages of Dissent: Olsen, Grekova, and the Politics of Creativity / Susan Hardy Aiken 120
Revolutions from Within / Ekaterina Stetsenko 141
Dialogue 158
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Witchbird / Toni Cade Bambara 163
That Kind of Girl / Liudmila Petrushevskaia 178
Children of the Sixties / Maya Koreneva 191
Telling the Other('s) Story, or, the Blues in Two languages / Susan Hardy Aiken 206
Dialogue 224
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Home / Jayne Anne Phillips 229
Needlefish / Elena Makarova 242
The World of Our Mothers / Adele Marie Barker 253
Hopes and Nightmares of the Young / Maya Koreneva 266
Dialogue 279
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Aniko of the Nogo Tribe / Anna Nerkagi 285
Storyteller / Leslie Marmon SIlko 312
Retelling the Legends / Ekaterino Stetsenko 327
Crossings / Adele Marie Barker 340
Dialogue 354
Afterword: Histories and Fictions 357
Selected Bibliography 393
Index 409
