Haunted Dreams - Kaminer, Jenny
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ENG: Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, this book maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for multiple anxieties throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment. Kaminer also directly addresses some of the pivotal questions facing scholars of post-Soviet Russia: Have Soviet cultural models been transcended? Or do they continue to dominate? The figure of the adolescent, an especially potent and enduring source of cultural mythology throughout the Soviet years, provides provocative material for exploring these questions. In Haunted…mehr

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ENG: Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, this book maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for multiple anxieties throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment. Kaminer also directly addresses some of the pivotal questions facing scholars of post-Soviet Russia: Have Soviet cultural models been transcended? Or do they continue to dominate? The figure of the adolescent, an especially potent and enduring source of cultural mythology throughout the Soviet years, provides provocative material for exploring these questions. In Haunted Dreams, Kaminer employs a historical approach to reveal how fantasies of adolescence have mutated and remained constant across the Soviet/post-Soviet divide, focusing on violence, temporality, and gender and the body. Some of the works discussed present the possibility of salvaging the model of the heroic adolescent for a new society. Others, by contrast, relegate this figure to the dustbin of history by evoking disgust or horror, or by unmasking the tragic consequences that ensue from the combination of adolescence, violence, and fantasy. RUS: В своей книге Дженни Каминер показывает, почему именно подросток - неустойчивый, ранимый, склонный к бунту -- стал ключевой фигурой в осмыслении тревожной, противоречивой реальности постсоветской эпохи. Сравнивая российский материал с западными подходами к изучению молодежи, автор вписывает свое исследование в широкий международный контекст. Каминер исследует тему на материале прозы, кино, театра и телевидения. В одних произведениях подросток предстает как
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ENG: Jenny Kaminer, a professor of Russian at the University of California, Davis. The book explores why adolescents became a key figure in understanding post-Soviet reality, comparing Russian material with Western approaches to youth studies. Kaminer analyzes this theme across prose, film, theater, and television, examining whether the inertia of the Soviet past has been overcome or still defines cultural images and ways of thinking. Kaminer's previous book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (2014), received an award for best book in Slavic gender studies. RUS: Дженни Каминер -- профессор русского языка в Калифорнийском университете в Дэвисе. Публикации Каминер о русской культуре охватывают широкий спектр исторических эпох, от XIX века до наших дней, а также жанров и средств массовой информации, включая драматургию, прозу, кино и телевидение. Ее первая книга Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (2014) получила премию Хельдта за лучшую книгу по славянским гендерным исследованиям. В настоящее время Каминер работает над монографией о народном ритуале и женском теле в современном российском кино.