Russian shorts gulag fiction
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This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.
The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 november 2024
Aantal pagina's: 168
Hoofdauteur: Polly Jones
Hoofdredacteur: Eugene M. Avrutin
Tweede Redacteur: Stephen M. Norris
Hoofduitgeverij: Bloomsbury Academic
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 190 g
EAN: 9781350250383