Rubins, M (Ed).
(2021)
Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920–2020.
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UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language when writers transcend the metropolitan and national boundaries and begin to negotiate new experience gained in the process of migration? Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 sets a new agenda for the study of Russian diaspora writing, countering its conventional reception as a subsidiary branch of national literature and reorienting the field from an excessive emphasis on the homeland and origins to an analysis of transnational circulations that shape extraterritorial cultural practices. Integrating a variety of conceptual perspectives, ranging from diaspora and postcolonial studies to the theories of translation and self-translation, World Literature and evolutionary literary criticism, the contributors argue for a distinct nature of diasporic literary expression predicated on hybridity, ambivalence and a sense of multiple belonging. As the complementary case studies demonstrate, diaspora narratives consistently recode historical memory, contest the mainstream discourses of Russianness, rewrite received cultural tropes and explore topics that have remained marginal or taboo in the homeland. These diverse discussions are framed by a focused examination of diaspora as a methodological perspective and its relevance for the modern human condition.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920–2020 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787359413 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787359413 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787359413 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editor, 2021 Text © Contributors, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Rubins, M. (ed). 2021. Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920–2020. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787359413 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creative commons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Russian literature, diaspora, literary studies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123245 |
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Loading...Loading...| 1. |  United Kingdom | 81 |
| 2. |  United States | 80 |
| 3. |  France | 27 |
| 4. |  Germany | 24 |
| 5. |  Russian Federation | 20 |
| 6. |  Netherlands | 19 |
| 7. |  Italy | 14 |
| 8. |  China | 8 |
| 9. |  India | 8 |
| 10. |  Romania | 8 |
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