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oapen-20.500.12657-308922021-04-30T10:39:04Z The Witching Hour and Other Plays Sadur, Nina Peterson, Nadya L. Arts Literary Collections A Hero of Our Time Lida Peasant Ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The plays included in this volume offer some of Sadur’s most influential works for the theater to the English-speaking audience for the first time. The collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature and culture, Russian theater, as well as women’s literature. Sadur’s plays are inspired by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd and Russian folklore, yet are also infused with contemporary reality and populated by contemporary characters. Her work is overtly gynocentric: the fictional world construes women’s traditionally downplayed concerns as narratively and existentially central and crucial. Sadur’s drama has exerted a tremendous influence on contemporary Russian literature. 2018-01-06 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-27 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:17:06Z 2020-04-01T13:17:06Z 2014-08-15 book 641449 OCN: 890676001 9781618113993;9781618117083;9781618119483 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30892 eng application/pdf n/a 641449.pdf https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/the-witching-hour-and-other-plays-by-nina-sadur Academic Studies Press 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjnx 101834 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjnx ffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781618113993;9781618117083;9781618119483 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Boston, MA 101834 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The plays included in this volume offer some of Sadur’s most influential works for the theater to the English-speaking audience for the first time. The collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature and culture, Russian theater, as well as women’s literature. Sadur’s plays are inspired by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd and Russian folklore, yet are also infused with contemporary reality and populated by contemporary characters. Her work is overtly gynocentric: the fictional world construes women’s traditionally downplayed concerns as narratively and existentially central and crucial. Sadur’s drama has exerted a tremendous influence on contemporary Russian literature.
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