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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002799655 Title: Oz behind the Iron Curtain Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic land series Author: Erika Haber Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2017 ISBN/ISSN: 9781496813602 149681360X 9781496813619 1496813618 9781496813626 1496813626 9781496813633 1496813634 9781496813640 1496813642 OCLC:1002799655

  
  

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Oz behind the Iron Curtain Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic land series

Author:	Erika Haber
Publisher:	Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2017
Series:	Children's Literature Association series
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First printingView all editions and formats
Summary:	A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Preface: A Story of Coincidences -- Introduction: The Appeal of the Wizard and the Importance of Context -- The Unknown Historian of Oz -- Volkov, the Invisible Writer-- Fairy Tales and the Development of Childrens Literature -- Baum's Oz -- Oz Becomes Magic Land -- Magic Land Reception at Home and Abroad -- Conclusion: Oz and Magic Land Today "In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the American story. Readers credited Volkov as author rather than translator. Volkov, an unknown and inexperienced author before World War II, tried to break into the politically charged field of Soviet children's literature with an American fairy tale. During the height of Stalin's purges, Volkov adapted and published this fairy tale in the Soviet Union despite enormous, sometimes deadly, obstacles. Marketed as Volkov's original work, Wizard of the Emerald City spawned a series that was translated into more than a dozen languages and became a staple of Soviet popular culture, not unlike Baum's fourteen-volume Oz series in the United States. Volkov's books inspired a television series, plays, films, musicals, animated cartoons, and a museum. Today, children's authors and fans continue to add volumes to the Magic Land series. Several generations of Soviet Russian and Eastern European children grew up with Volkov's writings, yet know little about the author and even less about his American source, L. Frank Baum. Most Americans have never heard of Volkov and know nothing of his impact in the Soviet Union, and those who do know of him regard his efforts as plagiarism. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored by critics, scholars, and librarians for many years."  Read more...
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Subjects	Volkov, Aleksandr, -- 1886-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation. Baum, L. Frank -- (Lyman Frank), -- 1856-1919 -- Influence. Baum, L. Frank -- (Lyman Frank), -- 1856-1919. -- Wizard of Oz. View all subjects
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