Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) - Hardcover

Kaminer, Jenny

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ISBN 10: 0810129469 ISBN 13: 9780810129467

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2014

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why, given the reverence for motherhood, [is] the bad mother is a recurrent figure in Russian culture? What is the purpose of the bad-mother image? Does it debunk the ideal mother or reaffirm the persistence of the myth? Kaminer s satisfying answer to this question spans three chapters, each of which focuses on a period directly following a national crisis: the emancipation of the serfs, the Russian revolution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Slavic Review"

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In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country's history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlev Family, Fyodor Gladkov's Cement, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's The Time: Night, as well as a late Soviet film (Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's Adam's Rib, 1990) and media coverage of the Chechen conflict. Kaminer's book speaks broadly to the mutability of seemingly established cultural norms in the face of political and social upheaval.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0810129469
• ISBN 13: 9780810129467
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236