Russian Literature since 1991

An international team of leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of post-Soviet Russian literature.

Evgeny Dobrenko (Edited by), Mark Lipovetsky (Edited by)

9781107068513, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 November 2015

320 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.58 kg

'This richly detailed compendium of essays will be of interest to scholars, students of contemporary Russian literature and culture, and pedagogues' Elizabeth Skomp, The Slavonic and East European Review

Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian literature and culture, it presents a broad panorama of genres in post-Soviet literature such as postmodernism, magical historicism, hyper-naturalism (in drama), and the new lyricism. At the same time, it offers close readings of the most prominent works published in Russia since the end of the Soviet regime and elimination of censorship. The collection highlights the interdisciplinary context of twenty-first-century Russian literature and can be widely used both for research and teaching by specialists in and beyond Russian studies, including those in post-Cold War and post-communist world history, literary theory, comparative literature and cultural studies.

1. The burden of freedom: Russian literature after Communism Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky
2. Recycling of the Soviet Evgeny Dobrenko
3. (Post)ideological novel Serguei Alex. Oushakine
4. Historical novel Kevin M. F. Platt
5. Dystopias and catastrophe tales after Chernobyl Eliot Borenstein
6. Magical historicism Alexander Etkind
7. Petropoetics Ilya Kalinin
8. Postmodernist novel Mark Lipovetsky
9. Narrating trauma Helena Goscilo
10. (Auto)biographical prose Marina Balina
11. The legacy of the Underground Poets Catherine Ciepiela
12. New lyrics Stephanie Sandler
13. Narrative poetry Ilya Kukulin
14. New drama Boris Wolfson
Works cited.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]