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1.10 - Contemporary Movements

from History 1 - Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2024

By
Marijeta Bozovic
Edited by
Simon Franklin ,
Rebecca Reich  and
Emma Widdis
Simon Franklin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Rebecca Reich
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma Widdis
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

While the first post-Soviet literary movements can be mapped in terms of their relationship to the marketplace, the decades that followed the 1990s marked the return of politics to Russian literature. The two dominant aesthetic styles in Russia since 2000 have been Postmodernism and New Sincerity. In this chapter it is argued that these two styles have proven more similar than was immediately apparent, and that, ultimately, they have followed the same trajectory: practitioners who may have initially appeared progressive or cast themselves as apolitical largely moved politically to the right. Among radical movements, the chapter highlights recent Russophone political poetry from socialist feminist and radical queer communities.

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modern literaturePostmodernismNew SincerityRussophone poetry
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The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature , pp. 184 - 197
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Bozovic, Marijeta, ‘The voices of Keti Chukhrov: Radical poetics after the Soviet Union’, Modern Language Quarterly 80.4 (2019), 453–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Brooks, Joan, ‘A conversation with Galina Rymbu’, Music & Literature (4 Feb. 2016), www.musicandliterature.org/features/2016/1/31/a-conversation-with-galina-rymbu.Google Scholar
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Crowley, Stephen, ‘Russia: The reemergence of class in the wake of the first “classless” society’, East European Politics & Societies 29.3 (2015), 698–710.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fenghi, Fabrizio, It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Foster, Hal (ed.), The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (New York: New Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Gorski, Bradley, ‘Authors of success: Cultural capitalism and literary evolution in contemporary Russia’, unpublished PhD thesis, Columbia University (2018).Google Scholar
Hlavajova, Marija, and Sheikh, Simon, Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989 (Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2017).Google Scholar
Lye, Colleen, and Nealon, Christopher (eds.), After Marx: Literary Criticism and the Critique of Value (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).Google Scholar
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