Analyzing the "Chechen Syndrome": Disadaptation of Veterans with War Trauma in Contemporary Russian Literature (original) (raw)
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There is a new army marching onto the field of contemporary Russian literature: veterans of the recent Chechen Wars. The war veteran as author and/or protagonist has become increasingly popular, bringing to light social issues concerning the wars, including the presence of social disadaptation, a term I will define in this thesis, due to war trauma. This thesis analyzes the appearance of war trauma in contemporary works, connecting themes arising in the literary works to Russian psychological literature written about war trauma from 2000-2011. The first chapter focuses on the works of Arkady
Post-Soviet Contexts and Trauma Studies. In: Slavonica, Volume 17, Number 2, November 2011.
The goal of this article is to consider the agendas that shape the field of post-Soviet cultural studies through an examination of post-Soviet Russian appropriations of the traumatic memory of the Soviet past. Post-Soviet scholarship, in questioning collectivizing constructions of identity, has begun to question its own agendas and cohesion. Parallel with developments in Trauma Studies, post-Soviet scholarship considers the relationship between individual and collective experience while enabling a narrative of self-determination on the part of Soviet subjects and those who study them. By working around the poststructuralist emphasis upon partiality and contingency that has impaired the ability to assert 'an absolute foundation of shared experiences upon which to build an invincible moral stance' (Ball 2000), scholars, contemporary artists and online fora stage interventions that reveal the instability of institutional discourses and reveal the political stakes of discussions about post-Soviet trauma.
in modern Slavic cultures, languages and literatures I processi sociali e politici nelle culture, lingue e letterature slave moderne Mednarodno znanstveno srečanje mladih humanistov, Koper, 21. oktober 2016 Zbornik povzetkov in program Uredila Lidija Rezoničnik in Marcello Potocco Oblikovanje in prelom ■ Jonatan Vinkler Izdala ■ Založba Univerze na Primorskem, Titov trg 4, si-6000 Koper, Koper 2016 Glavni urednik ■ Jonatan Vinkler Vodja založbe ■ Alen Ježovnik isbn 978-961-6984-41-6 (www.hippocampus.si/isbn/978-961-6984-41-6.pdf) isbn 978-961-6984-42-3 (www.hippocampus.si/isbn/978-961-6984-42-3/index.html) © 2016 Založba Univerze na Primorskem CIP -Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 821.16.09(082)(0.034.2) 811.16(082)(0.034.2) MEDNARODNO znanstveno srečanje mladih humanistov (2016 ; Koper) Družbeni in politični procesi v sodobnih slovanskih kulturah, jezikih in literaturah [Elektronski vir] = Social and political processes in modern slavic cultures, languages and literatures = I processi sociali e politici nelle culture, lingue e letterature slave moderne : zbornik povzetkov in program / Mednarodno znanstveno srečanje mladih humanistov = International Conference for Young Humanists = Convegno scientifico internazionale dei giovani umanisti, Koper, 21. oktober 2016 ; uredila Lidija Rezoničnik in Marcello Potocco. -El. zbornik. -Koper : Založba Univerze na Primorskem, 2016 Način dostopa (URL): http://www.hippocampus.si/isbn/978-961-6984-41-6.pdf Način dostopa (URL): http://www.hippocampus.si/isbn/978-961-6984-42-3/index.html ISBN 978-961-6984-41-6 (pdf) ISBN 978-961-6984-42-3 (html) 1. Gl. stv. nasl. 2. Vzp. stv. nasl. 3. Rezoničnik, Lidija 286928128
Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2001
eliminate the not infrequent mistakes and typos. The illustrations should be more closely integrated with the argumentation and analysis.. This is an interesting and substantial collection of articles. What it is not, however, is a post-Soviet primer on post-modernism. While the oppositions evident in the topics discussed above fit the current popular framework of conflicting "constructed identities," for the most part this interpretive matrix can either be replaced by older interpretive frameworks with no less, and probably more, explanatory power or is not actually practiced in the articles. The arguments about "constructed identity" by Schleifman and Holquist could just as easily be recast as pursuit of economic selfinterest by locality, center, and Cossackry respectively in an explanatory matrix that predates Marx. Engel presents a case for inclusion of women, using post-modernist terminology-"problematize the narrative"-but otherwise not distinguished from longstanding arguments of feminists. The articles on the Orthodox Church and multiparty politics are straightforward historical narratives with barely a nod to postmodernism. Kosach's article most comfortably assumes the contours of postmodernist argumentation. This is not accidental. T'he post-modernist approach works best when its subject is un-self-conscious. In both Mozhaisk and with the Cossackry folk are pursuing the time-honored practice of naked self-interest, so pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is not particularly revelatory. That does not mean that post-modernism is inapplicable to either Mozhaisk or Cossackry, but it does mean that the sources utilized should come from ordinary people who are un-self-conscious representatives of the Mozhaisk sacredotal vision or the Cossack claim for ethnicity. This collection is valuable because of the content of the articles, and it would have been better had it not been stretched to fit a post-modernist mold..
The text knows more than its author (Jurij Lotman 1) 1 Introduction This article was written as part of the project "Transottoman Semiospheres. Pavel Levašov's and Necâti Efendi's Imaginations of the Other" (SPP Transottomanica). 2 The author took this contribution as an opportunity to present his preliminary observations and reflections, which he could make on the basis, first and foremost, of a work by Pavel Levašov with the meaningful title Captivity and the Sufferings of the Russians among the Turks (published in book form in St. Petersburg in 1790). 3 It is already clear that the keyword 'dependency' is the vital cue for further work on this project. In the current, initial phase, it can already be said with certainty that captivity, suffering and violence are the fundamental themes in Levašov's representations of Ottoman foreigners. Captivity and violence create conditions of dependency. The historical and literary examination of the situation of imprisonment is thus at the same time an examination of the situation of dependency. Authors who want to talk about the imprisonment they have themselves experienced inevitably also tell a story about their own dependence, even if they do not intend to do so. We are dealing here with the polysemantic nature of the text, in the sense of Lotman's statement (see above) about the self-increasing logos. 4 This inner indeterminacy of the structure of an emerging text creates a tension: on the one hand, it is largely up to the authors how they negotiate this theme. Authors choose their strategy for dealing with this Tat'jana Černigovskaja, Ulybka češirskogo kota Šredingera: mozg, jazyk i osoznanie (Moscow: Jazyki Slavjanskoj Kul'tury, 2021), http://loveread.ec/view\_global.php?id=94810 [accessed 14.11.2021]. See also the article by Gül Şen in this volume. The present article is based on an abridged version of this work, which was published as part of a collected edition by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). All relevant page references refer to this publication: Aleksej Vigasin and Sergej Karpjuk, eds., Putešestvija po Vostoku v Ėpochu Ekateriny II (Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura RAN, 1995). Russ. samovozrastajuščij logos, Černigovskaja, Ulybka češirskogo kota Šredingera.
"Red on White" is a posthumous collection of Veronika Cherkasova’s newspaper articles and short essays. Cherkasova, a well-known Belarusian journalist, was murdered on October 20, 2004. Her body was found in her apartment in Minsk mutilated by as many as twenty cut wounds. Red on White was collected after Cherkasova’s death and published in small print in Moscow. This book presents a selection of Cherkasova’s writings from 1991 to 2004. Re-contextualized in a separate volume, Cherkasova’s essays become an insightful ethnography of Belarus over the last forty years... ....Red on White by Veronika Cherkasova is a thoughtful, interesting, at times humorous, well-written analysis of present-day Belarusian society and culture. This collection is an insightful ethnography that pays great attention to the details and routines of day-to-day Belarusian life, and helps one to better understand the dynamics of the post-Soviet transformations of Belarus.