Sasha Razor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4282203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sasha Razor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Razor |
| SIGNATURE | RAZOR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Domestication of Russian Cuisine in the United States
This article examines Wanda L Frolov’s cookbook, Katish: Our Russian Cook (1947) as a transitional text that navigates the food diplomacy of World War II and the Cold War “Red Scare.” The book narrates the story of two women from different parts of the world and walks of life – an American widow and a refugee widow from Russia – who lived together in Southern California during Prohibition. The plot is presented through the point-of-view of one of…
The Code of Presence
Since the fraudulent presidential elections of 9 August 2020, the Republic of Belarus has become a battleground between the women-led democratic opposition forces and the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenka. Current forms of political oppression in Belarus make open public protest dangerous. This exhibition report highlights safer ways to express dissent in a dictatorial society by grounding it in the textile arts, collective labor, and …
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1911–2011 represents a thoughtful, innovative, and well-researched study of the country's literary production dating back to the first two decades of its independence. Maria G. Rewakowicz arrives at her goal—“to draw the connection between the literary production and identity construction” (p. ix)—by operating under two premises: that it is possible to identify th…
Emotions and the representation of funeral rites in Sergei Tretiakov’s Georgian screenplays, 1928–1931
After the October Revolution and the Civil War, funerals became a distinct element of daily Soviet life. As a response to the traumatic moral situations, the filming of funerals fulfilled a documentary and didactic function as it formalized changes that were occurring within society, demonstrated appropriate ways to mourn, and performed a commemorative function. This article contributes to the ongoing study of Sergei Tretiakov's oeuvre by focusin…
East-Central European Literatures Twenty Years After
The goal of this collective effort is to provide an overview of the course of Central European literatures in the twenty years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authors have highlighted works they consider representative of their countries’ literary production and placed them in the context of the political and social changes they reflect. Where English translations of the works in question are available, they are listed in a bibliograph…
East-Central European Literatures Twenty Years After
The goal of this collective effort is to provide an overview of the course of Central European literatures in the twenty years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authors have highlighted works they consider representative of their countries’ literary production and placed them in the context of the political and social changes they reflect. Where English translations of the works in question are available, they are listed in a bibliograph…
East-Central European Literatures Twenty Years After
The goal of this collective effort is to provide an overview of the course of Central European literatures in the twenty years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authors have highlighted works they consider representative of their countries’ literary production and placed them in the context of the political and social changes they reflect. Where English translations of the works in question are available, they are listed in a bibliograph…
Emotions and the representation of funeral rites in Sergei Tretiakov’s Georgian screenplays, 1928–1931
After the October Revolution and the Civil War, funerals became a distinct element of daily Soviet life. As a response to the traumatic moral situations, the filming of funerals fulfilled a documentary and didactic function as it formalized changes that were occurring within society, demonstrated appropriate ways to mourn, and performed a commemorative function. This article contributes to the ongoing study of Sergei Tretiakov's oeuvre by focusin…
The Code of Presence
Since the fraudulent presidential elections of 9 August 2020, the Republic of Belarus has become a battleground between the women-led democratic opposition forces and the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenka. Current forms of political oppression in Belarus make open public protest dangerous. This exhibition report highlights safer ways to express dissent in a dictatorial society by grounding it in the textile arts, collective labor, and …
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1911–2011 represents a thoughtful, innovative, and well-researched study of the country's literary production dating back to the first two decades of its independence. Maria G. Rewakowicz arrives at her goal—“to draw the connection between the literary production and identity construction” (p. ix)—by operating under two premises: that it is possible to identify th…
Domestication of Russian Cuisine in the United States
This article examines Wanda L Frolov’s cookbook, Katish: Our Russian Cook (1947) as a transitional text that navigates the food diplomacy of World War II and the Cold War “Red Scare.” The book narrates the story of two women from different parts of the world and walks of life – an American widow and a refugee widow from Russia – who lived together in Southern California during Prohibition. The plot is presented through the point-of-view of one of…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)