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Overview""A Mind Purified by Suffering"": Evgenia Ginzburg's ""Whirlwind"" Memoirsrepresents the first book on one of Russia's most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg's memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps,Journey into the WhirlwindandWithin the Whirlwindplace her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The contributors address Ginzburg's Gulag experience through various vantage points, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. The volume also provides a history of prison camp writings, capped with her biography, analysis of her correspondence with her son, Vasily Aksenov, and an interview with him. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Olga M. CookePublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9798887191706Pages: 250 Publication Date: 25 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Barbara Heldt Introduction Olga M. Cooke Contributors 1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: the Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg Dariusz Tołczyk 2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia’s Ginzburg’s Krutoi marshrut Natasha Kolchevska 3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska Anna Artwińska 4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of Vulnerability Kathryn Duda 5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Re-Conceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag Experience Ann Komaromi 6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag Writers Rimma Volynska 7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag Elaine MacKinnon 8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the Whirlwind Oana Popescu-Sandu 9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976) Rimma Volynska 10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrut Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova 11. Interview with Vasily Aksenov Rimma Volynska and Olga M. Cooke IndexReviews“[This book] provide[s] important knowledge and insights into women’s experiences in the Gulag and as Gulag survivors. Cooke’s volume feeds the mind.” —- Denise J. Youngblood, Association for Women in Slavic Studies “This collection is an essential contribution to the literature on Evgenia Ginzburg, Krutoi marshrut, and the Soviet Gulag. These chapters offer a fresh look at a classic text, seeking to deepen and broaden our understanding of one of the most influential works in the Gulag literary canon. The collection reminds us of Ginzburg’s importance while offering new and productive ways to understand the richness of her work, relationships, and legacies.” — Alan Barenberg, Texas Tech University, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta and co-editor of Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies “The eleven contributors to this volume—leading scholars on Evgenia Ginzburg—succeed in providing their readers with insight into the personality, life, and writings of this most prominent of Gulag memoirists… [T]his is a study of humanity—of ‘a virtue linked with altruistic ethics derived from the human condition’ (Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification 34)—and of the individual’s capacity for preserving it under the most adverse, inhuman and inhumane, circumstances. The volume will thus be of interest… to human beings in general, especially now, when the memory of Stalinism’s crimes against humanity is being obliterated and the voices of its victims suppressed.” — Anastasia Kostetskaya, University of Hawaii, SEEJ “A timely multi-faceted collection of intra- and interdisciplinary research papers on the memoirs of the Gulag veteran Evgenia Ginzburg. Placing Ginzburg’s narrative in a number of contexts, tracing the author’s emotional and ideological arc, and offering unexpected insights, this volume fills in a gap in the scholarship and provides a basis and a stimulus for further academic conversation about one of the most impressive and influential accounts of life under Stalinist terror.” — Leona Toker, author of Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors and of Gulag Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading “Justifiably introduced by Barbara Heldt as comparable to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Evgenia Ginzburg’s landmark memoir of eighteen years in the Soviet Gulag system, Journey into the Whirlwind, has influenced generations of Gulag eyewitnesses as well as scholarship on Gulag writing, Soviet political repression, and the gendering of writing about repression. In this collection, Olga Cooke has brought together an impressive variety of approaches to Ginzburg’s and others’ writing by recognized scholars of Ginzburg’s work that will be required reading for future scholarship in the field. This thoroughly documented and elegantly edited volume serves the needs of both researcher and teacher, a welcome (and long-overdue) addition to our libraries.” — Diane Nemec Ignashev, Class of 1941 Professor of Russian & the Liberal Arts, Carleton College (Northfield, MN) Author InformationOlga M. Cookeis Associate Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. She is the editor of Andrey Bely's Petersburg: A Centennial CelebrationIn addition to her publications on Ginzburg, Bely, and Gulag literature, she is completing a book on Bely's correspondence. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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