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STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CULTURE AND HISTORY POST-SOVIET LITERATURE AND THE SEARCH FOR A RUSSIAN IDENTITY Boris Noordenbos Studies in European Culture and History Series Editors Eric D. Weitz CUNY Graduate Center New York , New York, USA Jack Zipes University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota, U SA Studies in European Culture and History is dedicated to publishing books that explore major issues in Europe's past and present from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. The works in the series are interdisciplinary; they focus on culture and society and deal with signifi cant developments in Western and Eastern Europe from the eighteenth-century to the pres- ent within a social historical context. With its broad span of topics, geog- raphy, and chronology, the series aims to publish the most interesting and innovative work on modern Europe. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14470 Boris N oordenbos Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity Boris Noordenbos University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands Studies in European Culture and History ISBN 978-1-137-59672-7 ISBN 978-1-137-59363-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59363-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016940619 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2 016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: © Andrey Nekrasov/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. New York For Midas and Hazel A N T OTE ON RANSLITERATION For the spelling of Russian words I rely on the Library of Congress sys- tem of transliteration. In cases of well-known Russian terms and names which have been anglicized in a different way, I deviate from this system. Following the most common English spelling, I refer, for instance, to Tolstoy (not Tolstoi), Trotsky (not Trotskii), glasnost (instead of glas- nost’), and Alexander (instead of Aleksandr). vii C ONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 Part I 27 2 The Black Holes of History: Narratives of Cultural Trauma 2 9 3 Post-totalitarian Identity and the Struggle with Literaturocentrism 5 9 4 Empire of Empty Signs: Russia’s Unsettling Imitations of “The West” 85 Part II 109 5 Imperial Stiob: The Aesthetics of Chauvinism 111 6 The Return of the Dead: Haunting Traumas and Nostalgic Dreams 145 ix
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