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Northwestern, Pittsburgh, and Wisconsin university presses are pleased to announce publication of the first titles in their joint Mellon Slavic Studies Initiative. The goal of the five-year project, funded by the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation, is to promote first monographs by scholars of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. PUBLISHED TITLES THE TRACE OF JUDAISM Vinokur links new readings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, and Osip Mandelstam to the work of Levinas, to ask: How does Judaism haunt Russian literature? In what ways are Levinas’s ethics as “Russian” as they are arguably “Jewish”? And more broadly, how do ethics and aesthetics inflect each other? Northwestern University Press
THE PROSE OF LIFE This is the first sustained examination of how and why everyday life as a literary and philosophical category catalyzed the development of post-Stalinist Russian women’s prose, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Sutcliffe lifts women’s writing out of a category to which it was long consigned and shows how their works, grounded in everyday life, address larger issues in Soviet and post-Soviet society that transcend the gender divisions within Russian and Soviet literature.”—Adele Barker, University of Arizona University of Wisconsin Press Spring 2009 Paperback & e-book
FORTHCOMING TITLES EROTIC NIHILISM IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA A thoroughly researched examination of the scandalous 1907 novel Sanin and its enduring effects on Russian cultural memory. “An original, stimulating, and needed book, based on a rich array of archival and published sources. Situating his work at the nexus of regulation, poetics, rumor, and literary history, Boele carefully examines an important work of literature and its impact on the cultural mythology of its age.”—Eric Naiman, author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology University of Wisconsin Press Fall 2009 Paperback & e-book
FAST FORWARD Fast Forward reveals how the Russian avant-garde’s race to establish a new artistic and social reality over a twenty-year span reflected an ambitious metaphysical vision that corresponded closely to the nation’s rapidly changing social parameters. “Presents a fresh and insightful approach to the whole phenomenon of avant-garde art forms in Russia.”—Barry P. Scherr, Dartmouth College University of Wisconsin Press Fall 2009 Paperback & e-book
RESONANT DISSONANCE Graham analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment. The late Soviet period (1961–1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but jokes engaged a range of official and popular culture genres and also worked meta-textually, referring to the political consequences of the humor. “Resonant Dissonance is an exciting book on an exciting subject, written in a lucid and engaging manner, not to mention that just a simple reading of the majority of the book’s block quotes—Russo-Soviet jokes in Graham’s excellent translation—will constitute a highly enjoyable experience.”—Mark Lipovetsky, associate professor of Russian studies, University of Colorado–Boulder Northwestern University Press Spring 2010 Cloth edition
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