Marina Tsvetaeva’s oeuvre in the context of gender studies

Abstract

This article is an attempt to look at Marina Tsvetaeva’s literary output in the context of gender studies. The following aspects are briefly discussed: a woman as a writer, a womanartist defending her right to create, a woman telling/writing her story, gender performance, contravention of the gender role, and the apocryphal writing strategy. The basic material for the text are: On a Red Steed (1921), The Tsar-Maiden (1922), A Hero of Labour (1925).