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Soviet Literature as World Literature: Conference

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

For the past decade or two, world literature has established itself as the dominant paradigm for studying the transnational circulation of literary models and texts. And yet Russian and Soviet literature seem decidedly missing from most of the world literature theoretization. The issue at stake here is not so much another blank spot on the geographical and historical map of…