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A Woman’s lot : realism and gendered narration in Russian women’s writing of the 1860s
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dc.contributor.author | Vaysman, Margarita | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-01T13:30:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-01T13:30:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04 | |
dc.identifier | 271204798 | |
dc.identifier | 669945f0-d441-4380-95b4-e927d3ac1307 | |
dc.identifier | 85101825635 | |
dc.identifier | 000623308700003 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vaysman , M 2021 , ' A Woman’s lot : realism and gendered narration in Russian women’s writing of the 1860s ' , Russian Review , vol. 80 , no. 2 , pp. 229-245 . https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12311 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0036-0341 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-4796-4523/work/90112455 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/21530 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the issue of realist literary narration portrayed as male privilege in Russian women’s writing of the 1860s, specifically in Avdot’ia Panaeva’s novel Zhenskaia dolia (A Woman’s Lot). Zhenskaia dolia was published in 1862, under Panaeva’s male pen name Nikolai Stanitskii, and, taking advantage of this indeterminacy of gender, Panaeva’s narrator alternated between its male and a female narrative personas. I argue that Panaeva used this self-consciously transgressive narrative voice to challenge the gendered aesthetic conventions of contemporary relist writing. Employing the theory of ‘narrative transvestism’, this article demonstrates how Panaeva’s narrator borrowed the male voice of authority, at the same time exposing its limitations. In A Woman’s Lot, Panaeva discussed the subject of realist narration in a wider framework of male privilege in society and the arts, negotiating her text’s problematic status as a realist narrative created by a woman writer. | |
dc.format.extent | 16 | |
dc.format.extent | 772448 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Russian Review | en |
dc.subject | Russian Realism | en |
dc.subject | Women writers | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Novel | en |
dc.subject | Narrative | en |
dc.subject | Queer theory | en |
dc.subject | DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics | en |
dc.subject | HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform | en |
dc.subject | PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | DK | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HN | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PG | en |
dc.title | A Woman’s lot : realism and gendered narration in Russian women’s writing of the 1860s | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Russian | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/russ.12311 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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