Gulag Fiction

Gulag Fiction
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781350250406
ISBN-13 : 1350250406
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Book Synopsis Gulag Fiction by : Polly Jones

Download or read book Gulag Fiction written by Polly Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.


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