Transnational and Translingual Russian Literatures and Cultures

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel addresses various aspects of transnational and translingual artistic production by Russian-speaking writers born in the former Soviet space who currently live in the west and produce works in English on Russian-related themes. It analyzes these writers’ hybrid textual practices and self-representations and their construction of diasporic literary communities, as well as examining the ways in which some of these works are beginning to veer away from the subject of hyphenated cultural identities.

Sub Unit

• Literature: Comparative

Chair

• Christopher Woodruff Lemelin, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Papers

• Linguistic Imaginaries of ‘Londongrad’: Speaking Russian on the London Streets in Fiction and Film - Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, U of Edinburgh (UK)

• Performing Americanness, Performing Russianness: Olga Grushin’s Novels - Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

• Russian-American Fiction: Moving Beyond the Immigrant Theme - Yelena Furman, UCLA

Discussants

• Miriam Finkelstein, U of Innsbruck (Austria)

• Anna Ronell, Tufts U