On the Internal Turns of Contemporary Russian Women's Writing
Contemporary Russian women's writing surfaced as a significant literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s,and has since undergone several internal turns.The themes in women's writing have diversified,with women writers transitioning from"minor themes"such as family and women's private lives,to themes encompassing personal history,family history,national history of the twentieth century,and other themes that transcend gender differences and hold universal significance for all humans.These themes concentrate on issues of ethnicity,identity,destiny of intellectuals,and cultural memory.Women's narratives have shifted from being confined to closed and private spaces,to embracing more open spaces.The sway of neo-naturalism,neo-sentimentalism and post-modernism has waned,giving way to a new trend favoring stylistic hybridity and a blurring of the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction.These shifts mirror the changes and characteristics of women's prose in general,as well as the evolving consciousness of women that deeply ingrained in contemporary Russian women's writing.
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