Moveable types: Embodied letters in Soviet children’s “living newspapers” (1920s-1930s)
The article demonstrates the convergence of physical, literary, and political educational goals in early Soviet child correspondents’ performances of “living newspapers.” Drawing on notions of letters as “graphic bodies,” developed within the field of typography studies and social semiotics, it pres...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chreecc, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Français |
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Cahiers d’histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique
2024
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | The article demonstrates the convergence of physical, literary, and political educational goals in early Soviet child correspondents’ performances of “living newspapers.” Drawing on notions of letters as “graphic bodies,” developed within the field of typography studies and social semiotics, it presents the 1920s Soviet educational development of embodied reading practices and the medium of living newspapers among children. It analyses a collection of the Perm-based illustrated pioneer monthly Zhivaia teatralizovannaia gazeta dlia pionerov [The Living Dramatized Newspaper for Pioneers], guidebooks for pioneer editorial boards, and visual materials from child performances, to discuss the implications of how the news performances turned the child correspondents’ bodies into living letter carriers. |
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