Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination
This documentary film is about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist and playwright. In 1980, age 21, Svetlana left the USSR for the US, unable to pursue studies at the Leningrad university because of the Jewish quota. After graduate studies at Boston University and Harvard, she became the Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. A brilliant writer of ambitious scope and great imagination, combining personal memoir with philosophical essay and historical analysis, she explored motifs of exile, nostalgia, the diasporic imagination and different forms of freedom in Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and many others, in a total of six books, with two more about to appear.
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- What is Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination about?
- This documentary film is about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist and playwright. In 1980, age 21, Svetlana left the USSR for the US, unable to pursue studies at the Leningrad university because of the Jewish quota. After graduate studies at Boston University and Harvard, she became the Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. A brilliant writer of ambitious scope and great imagination, combining personal memoir with philosophical essay and historical analysis, she explored motifs of exile, nostalgia, the diasporic imagination and different forms of freedom in Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and many others, in a total of six books, with two more about to appear.
- Who directed Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination?
- Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination was directed by Judith Wechsler.
- Who stars in Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination?
- Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination stars Dana Villa, David Damrosch, Donald Fanger, Guiliana Bruno, Masha Gessen, Yuri Goldberg.
- How long is Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination?
- Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination has a runtime of 59m (59 minutes).
- What genre is Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination?
- Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination is a Documentary film.