Translation and the making of modern Russian literature - Baer, Brian James (New York Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Introduction -- Born in translation -- Reading between, reading among: poet-translators in the age of the Decembrists -- The translator as forger: (Mis)translating empire in Lermontov's Hero of Our Time and Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer -- The boy who cried "Volk"!: (Mis)translating the nation in Dostoevsky's "Peasant Marei" and Iskander's "Pshada" -- Refiguring translation: translator-heroines in Russian women's writing -- Imitatio: translation and the making of Soviet subjects -- Reading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ðca change: translations of Western gay literature in post-Soviet Russia -- Unpacking Daniel Stein, or where post-Soviet meets postmodern.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Translating and interpreting -- Russia; Translating and interpreting -- Soviet Union; Translating and interpreting -- Russia (Federation); Russian literature -- Translations -- History and criticism; European literature -- Translations into Russian -- History and criticism; Translators in literature; National characteristics, Russian, in literature