Gulag fiction : labour camp literature from Stalin to Putin /
Jones, Polly, 1975-
Gulag fiction : labour camp literature from Stalin to Putin / Polly Jones. - Dokument elektroniczny - Russian shorts . - Russian shorts. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-147) and index.
The Gulag and its fiction -- The loss of myself? The body and mind in Gulag survivor prose -- Post-Soviet sagas of the soul -- Perpetrators in Gulag fiction -- Memory and post-memory of the Gulag.
"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"--Publisher's description.
9781350250383 1350250384 9781350250390 1350250392
Russian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Russian fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Labor camps in literature.
Soviet fiction--History and criticism.
Roman soviétique--Histoire et critique.
Roman russe--Histoire et critique.--21e siècle
Abris pour travailleurs dans la littérature.
Roman russe--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Literature and Plays.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Gulag fiction : labour camp literature from Stalin to Putin / Polly Jones. - Dokument elektroniczny - Russian shorts . - Russian shorts. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-147) and index.
The Gulag and its fiction -- The loss of myself? The body and mind in Gulag survivor prose -- Post-Soviet sagas of the soul -- Perpetrators in Gulag fiction -- Memory and post-memory of the Gulag.
"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"--Publisher's description.
9781350250383 1350250384 9781350250390 1350250392
Russian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Russian fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Labor camps in literature.
Soviet fiction--History and criticism.
Roman soviétique--Histoire et critique.
Roman russe--Histoire et critique.--21e siècle
Abris pour travailleurs dans la littérature.
Roman russe--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Literature and Plays.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.