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The Russophone Literature of Resistance

Moderated by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University) and Kevin M. F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania).

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

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World Literature Today, theat the University of Oklahoma, the University of Pennsylvania’sDepartment of ֱ & East European Studies, and Columbia University’swill co-sponsor a free Zoom webinar to launch the March 2023 issue ofWLT, which features a marquee section devoted to “The Russophone Literature of Resistance.” The launch—moderated by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University) and Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania), who co-guest-edited the cover feature—will be highlighted by appearances of the writersMaria Stepanova,Mikhail Shishkin, andRuthie Jenrbekova. Visit theon the Harriman Institute’s website to learn more about the participants and to register.

The eight writers included in the cover feature represent a broad swath of contemporary ֱ-language cultural production, transcending the contested borders of the ֱ Federation proper: they include poets, novelists, critics, essayists, translators, cinema critics, publishers, bookstore owners, academics, festival organizers, and cultural impresarios writing in ֱ but often with multilingual vocabularies and transnational topoi in their poems and essays. They share ֱ as their common language of creative expression, not only centered in the cultural metropolises of Moscow and St. Petersburg but from far-flung outposts of post-Soviet geography and neo-ֱ empire—or from oppositional spaces beyond its borders. Ten translators, along with Lipovetsky and Platt, collaborated to bring the works into English.

The digital edition of the March issue, which can be read on theWLTwebsite, will go live on February 27. To make the cover feature widely accessible to readers around the world,WLTis making the entire section free to read from March 1–31. Throughout the month, readers who are not current subscribers can take advantage of coupon codeSlavicLitWLTto, or share one with friends, at a 20 percent discount. In solidarity with the people of Ukraine,WLTis also (once again) making the July 2022devoted to Odesa and Kharkiv—which included responses by Ukrainian writers to the ֱ invasion and the first months of the war—freely available during the month of March.

For more information or accommodations, contactWorld Literature Todayat 405-325-4531.