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Alternative Literature
alternative Russian authors
Alternative Writers
Andromeda Nebula
apocalyptic fiction studies
Author_Nadya Peterson
Bulgakovian Novels
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Eleventh Hour
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Execution Block
Fairy Tale
fantasy in late Soviet literature
glasnost era literature
Late Brezhnev Era
Legendary Plots
Natural Beauty
Nina Sadur
Peasant Utopia
Russian literary criticism
Russian progeny
Search Lights
social imagination
socialist realism analysis
Socialist Realist Writing
Soviet literature
Soviet Middle Class
Soviet Science Fiction
subversive imaginations
utopian narratives
Valeriia Narbikova
Venedikt Erofeev
Village Prose
Village Prose Writers
Village Utopians
Vladimir Makanin
War Time
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367289157
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers' engagement with fantasy. Viewing the mutual interaction of Soviet/Russian literary output with aspects of the dominant culture such as ideology and politics, Nadya Peterson traces the process of mainstream literary change in the context of broader social change. She explores the subversive character of the fantastic orientation, its Utopian and apocalyptic motifs, and its dialogical relationship with socialist realism, as it steadily gathered force in the latter Soviet decades. The shattering of the mythic colossus did not put an end to these opposing forces, but rather diverted them in various unexpected directions–as the author explains in her concluding chapters on the new "alternative" literatures.
Nadya L. Peterson is assistant professor of Russian language and literature at the University of Connecticut.
