Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity

Noordenbos, Boris

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59363-4

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“…(One exception is Repše's short story collection "Seven Tales About Love" (1992) in which characters and narrators inhabit heterogenous temporalities.) The potential of putting history out of joint has been attributed not just to Anglo-American postmodern fiction (Hutcheon 2003) but also, more recently, to Russian novels of the 1990s and early 2000s (see Marsh 2007;Etkind 2013;Noordenbos 2016). Alexander Etkind and Boris Noordenbos have applied trauma theory to analyzing the ethical, rhetorical and temporal facets of experimental narratives, although both scholars risk interpreting literature as just a symptom of collective trauma.…”

Section: The Question Of Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“The Scar Will Always Be There”: The Post-Soviet Melancholia in Gundega Repše’s Novel 'Conjuring Iron'

Ostups¹

2020

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The article discusses the cultural and narratological aspects of melancholic understanding of history in postmodern Latvian fiction. The first part of the study offers a brief overview of Latvian fiction of the 1990s and early 2000s with a special attention to the interrelated questions of history, trauma, and representation. The second part shifts from cultural contextualization to defining melancholic temporality and highlighting narrative ways of expressing it in fiction which addresses trauma, collective and individual, from a posttraumatic place in time. The third part analyzes the indirect and disjointed engagement with Soviet occupation in Gundega Repše’s novel Conjuring Iron (2011). This is done by focusing on the poetics of unnarrated as a sign of prolonged mourning and by thinking about the epistemology of a fragment.

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Section: The Question Of Historymentioning

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“The Scar Will Always Be There”: The Post-Soviet Melancholia in Gundega Repše’s Novel 'Conjuring Iron'

Ostups¹

2020

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“…The westward expansion is supported by the ideology of Neo-Eurasianism and personally by Aleksandr Dugin, professor of Sociology at Moscow University, the well-known "political philosopher, analyst, and strategist": https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin Eurasianists underscored Russia's non-European alterity [9]. Dugin's geopolitical doctrine has been introduced into school curricula [10].…”

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The Conflict around Ukraine: Social and Environmental Aspects

Jargin¹

2022

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“…According to the author's impressions, some European capitals look today like Johannesburg in 1991. The westward expansion is supported by the ideology of Neo-Eurasianism and personally by Aleksandr Dugin, professor of Sociology at Moscow University, the well-known "political philosopher, analyst, and strategist": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin The Eurasianists have incessantly underscored Russia's non-European alterity [8]. Dugin's geopolitical doctrine has been introduced into school curricula [9].…”

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The Conflict in Ukraine: Social and Ecological Aspects

Jargin¹

2022

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The conflict in Ukraine and ensuing energetic crisis has hindered environmental policies in Europe and elsewhere. The war itself has severe environmental implications. The conflict between two major agricultural countries has negative impact on the global food supply. As food prices rise, some nations are likely to cope by converting forests and grasslands to fields.International tensions and conflicts are among reasons to boost childbearing in Russia and some other countries. There are inter-ethnic differences in the birthrate within Russia and worldwide.The necessity of birth control has been obfuscated by conflicting national and global interests, the population growth being regarded as a tool helping to the national sovereignty and defense.The pro-natalist policy is counterproductive in view of the global overpopulation. The ecological damage is generally proportional to the population density. The demographic growth contributes to the scarcity of energy and food in many regions. The energy could be supplied by nuclear power plants (NPPs). Well-managed NPPs pose less of a risk than those running on fossil fuels.The nuclear facilities practically do not emit greenhouse gases. Obviously, a lasting peace is needed, since NPPs are potential targets. By analogy with the Chernobyl accident, the war damage and shutdown of the Zaporozhie NPP (the largest NPP in Europe) will enhance demands for fossil fuels. In the past, the overpopulation was counteracted by wars, pestilence and famine.Today, scientifically based humane methods can be used to regulate the population size taking account of ecological and economical conditions in different regions. Large projects could be accomplished to improve the quality of life all over the world: irrigation systems, nuclear and other energy sources instead of fossil fuels. Hydroelectric power plants can be built on large rivers to produce hydrogen as eco-friendly energy carrier. Such projects would create many jobs, being a reasonable alternative to hostilities and excessive military expenditures. Not only durable peace but also mutual trust is required for that. Ukraine should become a testing ground for the international trust and cooperation.

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Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity

Cited by 17 publications

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“The Scar Will Always Be There”: The Post-Soviet Melancholia in Gundega Repše’s Novel 'Conjuring Iron'

“The Scar Will Always Be There”: The Post-Soviet Melancholia in Gundega Repše’s Novel 'Conjuring Iron'

The Conflict around Ukraine: Social and Environmental Aspects

The Conflict in Ukraine: Social and Ecological Aspects

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