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creators_name: Barker, Meghanne
title: From Stage to Page and Back Again: Remediating Petrushka in Early Soviet Children's Culture
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
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abstract: Early Soviet children's book authors and puppet theaters remediated the figure of Petrushka. As such, the prankster puppet traversed boundaries between book and stage. Books about mischievous Petrushka and friends invited children to create homemade puppet shows, encouraging children to manipulate and animate objects around them. Beginning in 1930, meanwhile, a new Theater of the Children's Book used puppetry to mobilize children into novel engagements with books. The figure of Petrushka, traversing between theater booth and children's book, brought elements of one medium into the other. I argue that such transmedial projects called attention to each, raising metapragmatic awareness about them, in line with efforts among culture-makers to make children active in the creation, manipulation, and animation of their material surroundings. At the same time, slippage between figures of Petrushka and child suggest uncertainty regarding whether energies of both should be celebrated, tamed, or effectively harnessed for proper Soviet ends. Incorporating literature from media studies, theater studies, and historical examinations of early Soviet children's culture, this article considers these transmedial projects as part of a larger endeavor within early Soviet children's literature of moving a medium into the children's book–and moving the children's book into new contexts. These projects raised awareness regarding the puppet as an object of manipulation, while suggesting that the child could be puppet-like, as well.
date: 2021-07
date_type: published
publisher: Wiley
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12318
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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elements_id: 1953379
doi: 10.1111/russ.12318
lyricists_name: Barker, Meghanne
lyricists_id: MBARK08
actors_name: Barker, Meghanne
actors_id: MBARK08
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: restricted
publication: The Russian Review
volume: 80
number: 3
pagerange: 375-401
issn: 0036-0341
citation:        Barker, Meghanne;      (2021)    From Stage to Page and Back Again: Remediating Petrushka in Early Soviet Children's Culture.                   The Russian Review , 80  (3)   pp. 375-401.    10.1111/russ.12318 <https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12318>.      
 
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