Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Born in Translation

Chapter One
Reading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the Decembrists

Chapter Two
The Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain Finkelmeyer

Chapter Three
The Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”

Chapter Four
Re-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s Writing

Chapter Five
Imitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet Subjects

Chapter Six
Reading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet Russia

Chapter Seven
Unpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets Postmodern

Bibliography
Index