Mapping experience in Polish and Russian women's writing

Summary: "This volume represents the 'final report' of the research project Generation, National Identity, the Body: Polish and Russian Women's Writing in Transformation (PURU, www.womenswriting.fi) affiliated to the University of Tampere, Finland, School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies. Mapping experience is the third 'experiment' conducted by the PURU research group on what happens to feminist literary thories and concepts when applied in the post-socialist East European context, or the context of the so-called second world"--Preface, p. [vii].

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ISBN: 9781443825238 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1443825239 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781443824934
ISBN: 1443824933
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (viii, 262 p.)
Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Mapping concepts : "experience" and women's writing in Russia and Poland / Urszula Chowaniec, Kirsi Kurkijärvi and Marja Rytkönen. Part I: Authorship and experience in 19th-century Russian and Polish women's writing. Conversation as female experience : the case of Narcyza Żmichowska / Grażyna Borkowska. The writing experience as emotional trauma : the case of Elena Andreevna Gan / Evgeniia Stroganova. Glory to the vanquished or tribute to lived experience : Eliza Orzeskowa's recreation of 1863 in her cycle 'Gloria victis' (1910) / Ursula Phillips -- Part II: Extreme and silent experiences : trauma and memory. "The trace of extremity within" : the aesthetics of trauma in Anna Ṡwirscczyńska's poems from Building the barricade / Renata Ingbrant. Soviet women and The Great Patriotic War : recalling extreme experience, body and pain / Kirsi Kurkijärvi. Feeling, thinking, confessing : post-Soviet memory and matrilineal narrative in Nina Katerli's 'Through the dusk of reality' / Marja Rytkönen --
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.