Gulag Fiction

Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin

AvPolly Jones,Stephen M. Norris

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-14
Mått:132 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:191 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Russian Shorts
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350250383

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Polly Jones is Professor of Russian at the University of 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.

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Polly Jones' new book provides readers with a helpful introduction to Gulag fiction that is grounded in recent research. The chapters on 21st-century novels set in the Soviet detention sites are particularly strong and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Russian literature as well as to those interested in labor camp literature specifically. - Emily D. Johnson, Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma, USA

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Gulag and its Fiction2. The Loss of Myself? The Body and Mind in Gulag Survivor Prose3. Post-Soviet Sagas of the Soul4. Perpetrators in Gulag Fiction5. Memory and Post-Memory of the GulagFurther ReadingIndex