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Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. Oushakine
In Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit, translators Anna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri Manin present a hybrid scholarly and literary volume of popular Russian-language Soviet children's texts alongside essays that outline the significance and meanings behind these popular texts. The selection features both poetry and short prose, all of which are instantly recognizable to a Soviet native, and all of which hold cultural currency, potency, and valence similar to popular children's literature in the United States, such as Green Eggs and Ham, Curious George, or Make Way for Ducklings. These texts have either never been translated into English before or appear in all-new translations, literary rather than literal; the featured original Soviet illustrations are reprinted for the English-reading market for the first time.
Alongside the translations themselves is a scholarly component that guides Anglophone readers to experience mainstays of Soviet children's writing. Essayists investigate literary material and perspectives using a broad range of approaches and methodologies applied to Soviet children's literature. Topics include the Soviet literary canon, the beginning and evolution of Soviet children's literature in the 1920s and 1930s, interactions between literary texts for children and folklore, and the interplay between Soviet and British children's poetry.
Contents
Introduction
Anna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri Manin
PART I: Poetry
Zinaida Aleksandrova
My Teddy Bear (1940)
Agniya Barto
Molly Made of Rubber (1930)
Me and Tamara (1933)
Chatterbox (1934)
Toys (1936)
Lovely Lyuba (1945)
Valentin Berestov
Hide-and-Seek (1963)
Sit-and-Read (1963)
At Play (1966)
Roosters (1966)
Sick Doll (1966)
Black Ice (1969)
Sparrows (1971)
Yelena Blaginina
Let's Sit Still (1940)
Kornei Chukovsky
Gottascrub (1923)
Squiggly Wiggly (1923)
Zizzy Lizzy the Fly (1924)
The Wondertree (1924)
Old Theodora's Trouble and Horror (1926)
Daniil Kharms
Liar (1930)
What Was That? (1940)
Samuil Marshak
The Tale of a Silly Mousie (1923)
Who Is Who in a Zoo (1923)
Scatterbrain (1930)
Where the Sparrow Had Lunch (1934)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
What Is Good and What Is Bad (1925)
What to Be? (1929)
Sergei Mikhalkov
Mimosa (1935)
What's New with You (1935)
PART II: Prose
Arkadii Gaidar
Tale of a Great Military Secret and a Brave Boy Whose Word Was Firm (1933)
Viktor Dragunsky
What I Love (1960)
. . . And What I Hate! (1960)
All Secrets Come to Light (1961)
He's Alive and He Glows (1964)
Valentin Katayev
The Seven-Petal Flower (1940)
The Pipe and the Jug (1940)
L. Panteleev
Honest Word (1941)
Part III: Practitioners' Notes on Translating Soviet Children's Literature
Kid Lit Not Split by a Colon
Anna Krushelnitskaya
"I Am Running, Running, Running, and I Cannot, Cannot Stop!": Meter in Translation
Dmitri Manin
Part IV: Scholarly Essays
To Keep and to Expand: The Canon of Soviet Children's Literature in Contemporary Publishing in Russia
Svetlana Maslinskaya
In the Interlude: The Search for Form and Method in Early Soviet Children's Poetry
Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Agniia Barto's Fun Rhymes: Lost Toys, Torn Paws, and Emotional Maturation
Marina Balina
People's Stories for the Kids: Folklore in Soviet Children's Literature
Sibelan Forrester
Baa-baa People's Sheep: On the Adventures of English Children's Poetry in Soviet Literature
Ainsley Morse and Dmitri Manin
Bibliography
Biographies
Index
