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By Boris Noordenbos

ISBN-10: 1137593636

ISBN-13: 9781137593634

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ISBN-13: 9781137596727

This booklet examines a variety of modern Russian writers whose paintings, after the dying of Communism, turned extra authoritative in debates on Russia’s personality, future, and position on this planet. distinct in his in-depth research of either playful postmodernist authors and fanatical nationalist writers, Noordenbos can pay consciousness not to basically the intense social and political implications of latest Russian literature but additionally literary shape through documenting the decline of postmodern types, reading transferring metaphors for a “Russian identification crisis,” and tracing the emergence of recent kinds of authorial ethos. to accomplish this finish, the booklet builds on theories of postcoloniality, trauma, and conspiracy pondering, and makes those learn fields productively on hand for post-Soviet studies.

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He even interprets the anatomical poster in the doctor’s office, depicting a bluish THE BLACK HOLES OF HISTORY: NARRATIVES OF CULTURAL TRAUMA 39 man with his chest “cleaved open” and the top of his skull “sawn off,” as a morbid hint of what is awaiting him. Moreover, Pet’ka considers (the apparently friendly) Kanashnikov as one of the most horrifying characters from his nightmares; when Chapaev asks Pet’ka about his dreams, the latter answers: “the night before I did dream about the clinic, and do you know what happened?

How to tell a cohesive story in the wake of violent events whose existence had been withheld by the regime, or if known were just too painful or traumatic to confront? Put even more strongly, some of the specific figures and metaphors that Khapaeva employs in her scholarly text are those of a post-Soviet discourse that is grounded in literature. Her related and often repeated metaphors of a “black hole” (58), a “crater in time” (91), and a “temporal hole” (91) for characterizing Russia’s “undigested histories,” for instance, have important antecedents in imaginative fiction.

In various ways they govern the logic of the book itself. In a manner that evokes the repressions and dissociations of a traumatized mind, the circumstances of the two shellshocks that set in motion the hallucinatory trajectories of the plot are available to both the reader and protagonist only through their psychological effects and their derivatives: the machine gunner Anka tells Pet’ka about his heroic participation in the battle, and in Kanashnikov’s hospital Pëtr discovers that one of the drawings on the wall, depicting the battle, is his own.

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