Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity

Boris Noordenbos (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781349955572 (ISBN)

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This book examines a wide range of contemporary Russian writers whose work, after the demise of Communism, became more authoritative in debates on Russia’s character, destiny, and place in the world. Unique in his in-depth analysis of both playful postmodernist authors and fanatical nationalist writers, Noordenbos pays attention to not only the acute social and political implications of contemporary Russian literature but also literary form by documenting the decline of postmodern styles, analyzing shifting metaphors for a “Russian identity crisis,” and tracing the emergence of new forms of authorial ethos. To achieve this end, the book builds on theories of postcoloniality, trauma, and conspiracy thinking, and makes these research fields productively available for post-Soviet studies.

Boris Noordenbos is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Introduction.- The Black Holes of History: Narratives of Cultural Trauma.- Post-Totalitarian Identity and the Struggle with Literaturocentrism.- Empire of Empty Signs: Unsettling Imitations of “the West”.- Imperial Stiob: The Aesthetics of Chauvinism.- The Return of the Dead: Haunting Traumas and Nostalgic Dreams.- Interpreting Gorbachev’s Birthmark: Conspiratorial Visions of Russian Identity.- Conclusion.- Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in European Culture and History
Zusatzinfo	X, 232 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
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ISBN-13	9781349955572 / 9781349955572
Zustand	Neuware