Subversive imaginations : fantastic prose and the end of Soviet literature, 1970s-1990s /
Viewing the mutual interaction of Soviet/Russian literary output with aspects of the dominant culture such as ideology and politics, Nadya Peterson traces the process of mainstream literary change in the context of broader social change. She explores the subversive character for the fantastic orient...
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Writers, Readers, Society, and Literary Change
- 3. Fantastic Prose as an Escape from the Literature of Purpose
- 4. Socialist Realists in Space
- 5. Between Fantasy and Reality
- 6. Peasant Dreamers, Shattered Dreams: Village Utopians
- 7. Mikhail Bulgakov's Disciples in Soviet Literature
- 8. Envisioning the End: The Apocalyptic Novels of Glasnost
- 9. Alternative Literature I: The Thieves of Language
- 10. Alternative Literature II: Games Women Play
- 11. Conclusion.