Subversive Imaginations

Fantastic Prose And The End Of Soviet Literature, 1970s1990s

Nadya Peterson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-30461-4 (ISBN)

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In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers' engagement with fantasy. Viewing the mutual interaction of Soviet/Russian literary output with aspects of the dominant culture such as ideology and politics, Nadya Peterson traces the process of mainstream literary change in the context of broader social change. She explores the subversive character of the fantastic orientation, its Utopian and apocalyptic motifs, and its dialogical relationship with socialist realism, as it steadily gathered force in the latter Soviet decades. The shattering of the mythic colossus did not put an end to these opposing forces, but rather diverted them in various unexpected directions–as the author explains in her concluding chapters on the new "alternative" literatures.

Nadya L. Peterson is assistant professor of Russian language and literature at the University of Connecticut.

Introduction -- Writers, Readers, Society, and Literary Change -- Fantastic Prose as an Escape from the Literature of Purpose -- Socialist Realists in Space -- Between Fantasy and Reality -- Peasant Dreamers, Shattered Dreams: Village Utopians -- Mikhail Bulgakov's Disciples in Soviet Literature -- Envisioning the End: The Apocalyptic Novels of Glasnost -- Alternative Literature I: The Thieves of Language -- Alternative Literature II: Games Women Play -- Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	18.05.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-30461-9 / 0367304619
ISBN-13	978-0-367-30461-4 / 9780367304614
Zustand	Neuware