Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2018.1507532
Ian Probshtein
This article examines the current Russian poetry scene from the point of view of its attitude toward trauma, particular the trauma of the 1990s, which combined the end of the Soviet Union with various economic and philosophical difficulties—including the challenge of emerging information about the Gulag and other bad world events. Probshtein focuses on the poets who were present at a particular festival but cites widely on the topic.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2018.1507397
A. Skidan
Skidan begins by considering the epic Lay of Igor’s Campaign, often read as the first work of Russian literature, and its political aspect, among its many other traits. The article then turns to poetry by Vladislav Khodasevich from the years just after the Revolution, and ends with a nuanced discussion of Paul Celan’s poem “In Eins.”
Skidan首先考虑了史诗《伊戈尔战役》(Lay of Igor’s Campaign),它通常被视为俄罗斯文学的第一部作品,以及它的政治方面,以及它的许多其他特征。文章随后转向弗拉迪斯拉夫·霍达谢维奇(Vladislav Khodasevich)创作于革命后不久的诗歌,并以对保罗·策兰(Paul Celan)的诗歌《在爱中》(In Eins)的细致讨论结束。
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2018.1507529
Tat’iana Vaizer
This substantial article begins as a review of Irina Sandomirskaia’s 2013 book Blokada v slove [The Blockade in the Word], also discussing writing on traumatic experience in general, especially the Holocaust, with attention to work by poets Paul Celan and Robert Schindel. In often poetic prose, Vaizer cites recent poets in Russia whose writings let language express trauma precisely by breaking the classic poetic habits, and especially by rejecting the “smoothness” and self-censorship of Soviet-era linguistic usage. Vaizer also can be read for introductions to a number of interesting young poets.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2018.1558680
Sibelan E. S. Forrester
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2017.1416534
M. Khakuasheva
This article provides an overview of current trends in Adyghe (Cherkess) literature. One such trend is neomythologism, which can be linked both to rich national traditions of mythology and folklore and to neomythological tendencies in world literature. Khakuasheva explores the appearance of new genres, such as mythological and dystopian novels, phenomena for which serious changes in axiology and increasingly complex poetics have paved the way. She also comments on the impact of bilingualism.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2017.1416533
K. Korchagin
The Fergana School of poetry is one of post-Soviet poetry’s most remarkable phenomena. In the early 1990s, members of this school—Shamshad Abdullaev and Khamdam Zakirov, along with Hamid Ismailov, who is close to the school—proposed a project for the recreation of Uzbek literature. This approach involves inventing a new type of subjectivity that, in terms of a number of its features, could be described as a postcolonial subjectivity. This article examines the three components of this approach: rethinking Uzbek literature as part of world literature and the related process of “self-exoticizing”; identifying the particular mode of visuality that distinguishes the work of the Fergana School; and searching for a new linguistic identity, one more cosmopolitan than that offered by Uzbek language and literature. Using materials published in the Tashkent journal Eastern Star [Zvezda Vostoka] (which was edited by Abdullaev in 1991–1996), Korchagin examines these three components.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2017.1416532
G. Guseinov
In this article, Gasan Guseinov examines the early antiglobalist “nativist” [pochvennicheskii] reaction to the internationalization of culture, or early multiculturalism. Using the example of Vladimir Soloukhin’s translation of Rasul Gamzatov’s My Dagestan, as well as Soloukhin’s own writing, he analyzes the formation of Soviet postcolonial discourse.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2017.1400270
A. Rykov
Rykov’s article investigates the works of Nikolai Punin, a major figure in the Russian avant-garde and a theoretician of art and literature, in the context of the culture of late Stalinism. A central focus is Against Civilization, a work co-authored with Evgenii Poletaev that envisions a totalitarian utopia. It also explores the early 1940s literary work, Letters to M.G., and an unfinished dissertation on the nineteenth-century artist Aleksandr Ivanov. Rykov traces the evolution of Punin’s nationalist rhetoric from his early engagement in the conservative revolution in Germany to his essentialist interpretation of Russian art history. He also identifies a diverse array of discourses (ranging from Bolshevik, proto-fascist and militaristic to modernist and formalist) supported by the avant-garde matrix of Punin’s thought.
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