Revolution in Russian Women's Writing

This course will use Russian women’s writing, primarily fiction, to develop a new understanding of Russian literary and cultural history. By weaving together literature, historical texts, and feminist theory from Russia and beyond, we will reveal a narrative of Russian literary and cultural history that is generally relegated to footnotes, a narrative that contains different cataclysmic shifts and revolutions than those that occurred at the state level, and we will examine the inception and development of the tradition of Russian women's writing. No knowledge of Russian required.