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Warped mourning : stories of the undead in the land of the unburied / Alexander Etkind.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955-
- Series:
- Cultural Memory in the Present
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Grief in literature.
- Socialism and literature--Soviet Union.
- Socialism and literature.
- Collective memory and literature--Soviet Union.
- Collective memory and literature.
- Collective memory and literature--Russia (Federation).
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Soviet Union.
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post-Soviet culture, haunted by its past, has produced a unique set of memorial practices. More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains ""the land of the unburied"": t
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Transliteration Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Mimetic and Subversive; 2. Mourning and Warning; 3. The Parable of Misrecognition; 4. Writing History after Jail; 5. On Tortured Life and World Culture; 6. The Debt to the Dead; 7. The Cosmopolitan Way; 8. The Tale of Two Turns; 9. The Hard and the Soft; 10. Post-Soviet Hauntology; 11. Magical Historicism; Conclusion; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780804785532
- 0804785538
- OCLC:
- 827208528
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