Cultural Models and Collective Mentalities in Literature, Art, and Philosophy

Slav Gratchev is Professor of Spanish at Marshall University, USAValery Chirkov is Professor of psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Cultural Models and Collective Mentalities in Understanding Who Humans Are (Valery Chirkov)Part 1: Social Science and Humanities - A Fruitful Symbiosis for Understanding Collective Minds1. Erasing Embodied Identities: Espronceda’s Death-Row Inmate and the Fate of Social Deviants (Steven Mills)2. Discursive Osmosis and the Rhetoric of Singularity: A German Case Study (Michael Eskin)Part 2: Collective Consciousness in Literature and Art3. The Revolt of the Irrational: The End of Albert Camus’ French project? (Yelena Mazour-Matusvich)4. Reshaping the Narrative of Soul Food: Edna Lewis’s ‘Taste of Country Cooking (Yumi Tanaka) Part 3: History and Collective Memory in Forming Cultural Identities5. The Uses and Abuses of Memory in Georgi Gospodinov’s ‘Time Shelter’ (Margarita Marinova) 6. Navigating Basque Identities in Eva Garcia Sáenz de Urturi’s Kraken Series (Melissa Carr)7. Resurrecting Cultural Silences through Docupoetics in Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Book of the Dead.’ (B. Woods)Part 4: Collective Minds and Cultural Models of Russia and Post-Soviet Nations8. Deconstructing the Dead Soul of Russia (Victor Fet)9. The Concept of Russian National Character in ‘Three Sisters’ and ‘Uncle Vanya’ by Anton Chekhov (Julia Titus)10. Searching for Cultural Models in Central Asia (Anara Tabishalieva)