Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myths and Realities (Children's Literature and Culture)

Synopsis

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays on childhood experience. The volume offers new critical approaches to Russian and Soviet childhood at the intersection of philosophy, literary criticism, film/visual studies, and history. Pedagogical ideas and practices, and the ideological and political underpinnings of the experience of growing up in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and Putin’s contemporary Russia are central venues of analysis. Toward the goal of constructing the "multimedial childhood text," the contributors tackle issues of happiness and trauma associated with childhood and foreground its fluidity and instability in the Russian context. The volume further examines practices of reading childhood: as nostalgic text, documentary evidence, and historic mythology. Considering Russian childhood as historical documentation or fictional narrative, as an object of material culture, and as embodied in different media (periodicals, visual culture, and cinema), the volume intends to both problematize but also elucidate the relationship between childhood, history, and various modes of narrativity.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

288 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000780727

Related ISBNs:

9781032227993, 9781000780673, 9781032227962, 9781003274223

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

04/16/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova, and Anastasia Kostetskaya

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Marina Balina

Edited by:

Larissa Rudova

Edited by:

Anastasia Kostetskaya