Growing Out of Communism

Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017

• Author(s): Andrea Lanoux, Kelly Herold, Olga Bukhina,
• Publisher: Brill Deutschland
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 3506791842
  ISBN_13: 9783506791849
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Social History , Literary Criticism / European / Eastern , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 21st Century , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General ,

Description:... Growing Out of Communism explores the rise of a new body of literature for children and teens following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent transformation of the publishing industry.
Lanoux, Herold, and Bukhina first consider the Soviet foundations of the new literature, then chart the influx of translated literature into Russia in the 1990s. In tracing the development of new literature that reflects the lived experiences of contemporary children and teens, the book examines changes to literary institutions, dominant genres, and archetypal heroes. Also discussed are the informal networks and online reader responses that reflect the views of child and teen readers.