Artist and author (and mother) Nika Dubrovsky is back on the show to talk about Soviet cartoons and Soviet literature for kids and the unique radical progressive ethos children’s culture had in post-revolutionary Soviet society.
Did soviet kid lit concede some space for the fantastic, bizarre or cruel not integrated in a humanistically edifying context? The thought of having to conduct, as a child, my imaginary life in the narrow confines of secular sunday school literature makes me feel rather claustrophobic. I would like to find in my books a porthole I might open to let in the forces of chaos, or at least the odd spell invoking Cernunnos the Horned One to cause havoc and smite my enemies. Fugcnik reason doesn't quite cut the cheese.
(In case it shows: I might have missed parts of the ep due to my adopting the in-bed style on the listening side as well - with occasional and unnoticed fadeouts of consciousness.)
Love the Anthropology for Kids. Wish I could find a way to use it but I teach adults and my daughter has been married for a decade. Maybe with grandchildren.
Did soviet kid lit concede some space for the fantastic, bizarre or cruel not integrated in a humanistically edifying context? The thought of having to conduct, as a child, my imaginary life in the narrow confines of secular sunday school literature makes me feel rather claustrophobic. I would like to find in my books a porthole I might open to let in the forces of chaos, or at least the odd spell invoking Cernunnos the Horned One to cause havoc and smite my enemies. Fugcnik reason doesn't quite cut the cheese.
(In case it shows: I might have missed parts of the ep due to my adopting the in-bed style on the listening side as well - with occasional and unnoticed fadeouts of consciousness.)
Love the Anthropology for Kids. Wish I could find a way to use it but I teach adults and my daughter has been married for a decade. Maybe with grandchildren.