TY - BOOK AU - Sadur, Nina ED - Peterson, Nadya L. AB - Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The plays included in this volume offer some of Sadur’s most influential works for the theater to the English-speaking audience for the first time. The collection will appeal to readers interested in Russian literature and culture, Russian theater, as well as women’s literature. Sadur’s plays are inspired by symbolist drama, the theater of the absurd and Russian folklore, yet are also infused with contemporary reality and populated by contemporary characters. Her work is overtly gynocentric: the fictional world construes women’s traditionally downplayed concerns as narratively and existentially central and crucial. Sadur’s drama has exerted a tremendous influence on contemporary Russian literature. DO - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjnx ID - OAPEN ID: 641449 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 890676001 KW - Arts KW - Literary Collections KW - A Hero of Our Time KW - Lida KW - Peasant KW - Ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/234e2f3b-4035-42a3-8264-9a917c5b1ea1/641449.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30892 PB - Academic Studies Press PP - Boston, MA PY - 2014-08-15 SN - 9781618113993;9781618117083;9781618119483 TI - The Witching Hour and Other Playsnull ER -