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Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow’s artistic underground in the late 1970s and early 80s, he became visible to a broader Russian audience only in the mid-1990s, with texts shocking the moralistic expectations of traditionally minded readers by violating not only Soviet ideological taboos, but also injecting vulgar language, sex, and violence into plots that the postmodernist Sorokin borrowed from nineteenth-century literature and Socialist Realism. Sorokin became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books in 2002 and he picked up neo-nationalist and neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels of the 2000s and 2010s, making him one of the fiercest critics of Russia’s “new middle ages,” while remaining steadfast in his dismantling of foreign discourses.

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow’s artistic underground in the late 1970s and early 80s, he became visible to a broader Russian audience only in the mid-1990s, with texts shocking the moralistic expectations of traditionally minded readers by violating not only Soviet ideological taboos, but also injecting vulgar language, sex, and violence into plots that the postmodernist Sorokin borrowed from nineteenth-century literature and Socialist Realism. Sorokin became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books in 2002 and he picked up neo-nationalist and neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels of the 2000s and 2010s, making him one of the fiercest critics of Russia’s “new middle ages,” while remaining steadfast in his dismantling of foreign discourses.

Die Autorin analysiert Werke von Irena Brežná, Jurij Brězan, Mascha Dabić, Róža Domašcyna, Olga Grjasnowa, Barbi Marković, Olga Martynova und Aleksandar Tišma. Die Texte setzen sich mit multiplen Zugehörigkeiten, Mehrsprachigkeit und Übersetzung auseinandersetzen und thematisieren Diskriminierung, Rassismus und Antisemitismus.

Was macht kulturelle Fremdherrschaft mit den Unterdrückten? Diese Frage beantwortet die vorliegende Einführung in die literaturwissenschaftlichen Postcolonial Studies, die als erste Beiträge von allen Kontinenten einbezieht. Die Themen reichen von bundesdeutschen Restitutionsfragen, der Windhuk-Auschwitz-Debatte und Migrationsliteratur über anglo-amerikanische und australische Analysen (post-)kolonialer Diskurse und lateinamerikanische dekoloniale Kritik zu karibischen, afrikanischen und südasiatischen Kulturtheorien. Die neuartige Einführung berücksichtigt innereuropäische Kolonialismen von Bosnien bis Russland genauso, wie sie ukrainische Dekolonisierungsdebatten umreißt und die postkoloniale Israel-Gaza-Kontroverse beleuchtet.