Russian American Cultural Center presents a new bilingual Russian-English book, “Comics on Ethnic Themes,” by poet and artist Marina Temkina
Russian American Cultural Center presents a new bilingual Russian-English book, “Comics on Ethnic Themes,” by poet and artist Marina Temkina
Event Venue:
Yorkville Library, 222 E. 79th Street, New York, NY 10075Event Date:
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Written thirty years ago and brilliantly translated by Boris Dralyuk, this long poem navigates the turbulent waters of the poet’s identity and the tangled history of her immigrant community. Portraits of female intellectuals and artists, like a gallery of outsider drawings, are presented in the book, artfully designed by Tiptop Street publisher Ilya Bernsteyn, who will tell the story of this project.
The book, sponsored by RACC and Regina Khidekel, curator and sponsor of recent exhibitions featuring Marina Temkina's work, “Children of the War” and “Four Artists“.
The author will be available for autograph sessions.
Komiks on Ethnic Themes Paperback – July 12, 2025
by Marina Temkina (Author), Tiptop Street (Editor)
Cynthia Ozick: There is nothing in the world like it-Dada plus auto-biography plus chanting cadences plus riddles plus geographies plus histories-in short, a New Thing is born. Alex Averbuch: Permeating this book is a joyful yet piercing irony - toward the self as well as the world, revealing both Jewish self-criticism and the enduring presence of antisemitism. Cataloguing humanness, marking off the boundaries of nationhood but dissolving them at the same time, Marina Temkina defines, by un-defining, the self, the other, stigma, stereotype, and the universal. With this provocative exploration, she aims to dismantle the ethnonational and the rigid, unsettling what seems settled, so as to reveal what is most deeply human. Bilingual Books: Russian Literature with Parallel English Translation
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/komiks-on-ethnic-themes-tiptop-street/1147935816?ean=9798985176278
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The Russian-American Cultural Center program was made possible by part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Cojeco and Tianaderrah Foundation
