Week 5. Liudmila Ulitskaia, ‘The Gift Not Mae by Human Hand' (1993)
Required Reading
Ulitskaia, 'Gulia' (Russian text)
Ulitskaia 'Gulia' English text (see pdf below in folder)
Skomp, Elizabeth, & Sutcliffe, Benjamin. Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance, Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015, (excerpt, see pdf below in folder).
Carol Adlam, Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost: Female Alternatives, London, 2005, 111-13. (see pdf below in folder)
Further Reading
Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2009, 99-129 Helena Goscilo, ‘Inscribing the Women’s Body in Women’s Fiction: Stigmata and Stimulation,’ in Liudmilla Petrushevskaia, ‘Hygiene,’ ‘New Robinson’ in Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Wakomiya (eds),Late and post-Soviet Russian literature: a reader, Book 1: Perestroika and the post-Soviet period, 2014,43-51.
