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Gulag Fiction
Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin
Taschenbuch von Polly Jones
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Polly Jones is Professor of Russian at University College, Oxford, UK. She has published extensively on Soviet literature and memory politics, including two monographs Myth, Memory, Trauma (2013) and Revolution Rekindled (2019), several edited volumes, including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006) and numerous articles. She is embarking on a new collaborative project about the concept of the '101st kilometre' in Soviet penal policy and practice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Gulag and its Fiction
2. The Loss of Myself? The Body and Mind in Gulag Survivor Prose
3. Post-Soviet Sagas of the Soul
4. Perpetrators in Gulag Fiction
5. Memory and Post-Memory of the Gulag
Further Reading
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Russian Shorts
ISBN-13: 9781350250383
ISBN-10: 1350250384
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Polly
Redaktion: Avrutin, Eugene M.
Norris, Stephen M.
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 196 x 128 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Polly Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,19 kg
Artikel-ID: 128483515
Über den Autor
Polly Jones is Professor of Russian at University College, Oxford, UK. She has published extensively on Soviet literature and memory politics, including two monographs Myth, Memory, Trauma (2013) and Revolution Rekindled (2019), several edited volumes, including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006) and numerous articles. She is embarking on a new collaborative project about the concept of the '101st kilometre' in Soviet penal policy and practice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Gulag and its Fiction
2. The Loss of Myself? The Body and Mind in Gulag Survivor Prose
3. Post-Soviet Sagas of the Soul
4. Perpetrators in Gulag Fiction
5. Memory and Post-Memory of the Gulag
Further Reading
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Russian Shorts
ISBN-13: 9781350250383
ISBN-10: 1350250384
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Polly
Redaktion: Avrutin, Eugene M.
Norris, Stephen M.
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 196 x 128 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Polly Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,19 kg
Artikel-ID: 128483515
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