TY  - GEN
Y1  - 2025/04/11/
TI  - Between linguistic resistance and collapse: Russophone anti-war poetry and the question of linguistic legitimacy
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PB  - Uzhhorod National University = ???? "???????????? ???????????? ???????????"
SP  - 257
CY  - Uzhhorod, Ukraine
ID  - discovery10206669
KW  - linguistic legitimacy
KW  -  linguistic resistance
KW  -  anti-war poetry
KW  -  Russophone poetry
EP  - 271
AV  - public
N2  - In this article, I examine Russophone anti-war poetry published
since Russia?s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and identify a tendency in this material to
question the very foundations of cultural (literary) resistance. More speci?cally, the ability,
possibility, and moral conditions of language (and script) to express war resistance are
addressed. Russophone writers, whether within the Russian Federation or in exile, face
profound dilemmas tied to the moral implications of expressing resistance in a language
steeped in war, violence, and terror. I explore how these challenges are addressed in a two-
pronged analysis. First, I look at some of the main lines of argumentation linked to these
issues when discussed by writers and critics on a meta-level (in prefaces, commentaries,
launch events, etc.). I then proceed to examine a couple of strategies that manifest
themselves in a selection of poems. These strategies range from subtle linguistic innovations
to more radical practices, with extreme examples revealing a language teetering on the
edge of collapse. I o?er a brief prehistory of linguistic resistance in Russian/Soviet culture
before concluding by summarizing the chief functions of Russophone anti-war poetry, as
conceived by the writers and critics.
UR  - https://www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/
A1  - Lunde, Ingunn
ER  -