Russian/East/Central European postcolonial literature

[Mark N Leiderman]

  Dear Yelena,

  You may use Andrei Volos' "Hurramabad" (English
  version is published by Glas), a chapter from Oksana
  Zabuzhko's "Filed Work in Ukrainian Sex"
  (http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/print/2001/53-zabuzhko.html) 
  and of course Milan Kundera's numerous writings on
  Central Europe including his recent "Die
  Weltliteratur" ("The New Yorker", January 8, 2007).
  Everything pertaining North Caucuses is valuable
  too: some of texts on this subject may be found in
  the recent Glas collection "War and Peace" (Arkadii
  Babchenko, Julia Latynina, and the fragment from
  Dmitri Bykov's novel "ZhD" under the title
  "Jewhad"). Makanin's "The Prisoner of the Caucuses"
  is included into the collection of his works "The
  Loss" (Northwestern UP) translated by Byron Lyndsey 
  - although it's more a post-imperial rather than a
  post-colonial text.

  Best of luck,
  Mark

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MARK LIPOVETSKY [Leiderman]
Associate Professor of Russian Studies and Comparative Literature,
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Office Address:
CU-Boulder, 276 UCB, Boulder CO 80309
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Tel: 303-492-7957



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    Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:42:20 -0700
    From: "Furman, Yelena" <yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU>
    Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian/East/Central European
    postcolonial literature
    To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
    >Dear all,
    >This may be a somewhat unusual question, but I'll
    try anyway. I have been asked for recommendations
    of texts by contemporary Russian writers who deal
    with the issue of post-colonialism (defined
    loosely, given that it's a very different
    historical situation). Since the person who asked
    me doesn't read Russian, these would have to be in
    English translation. Perhaps there are also
    writers from East/Central Europe, or Central Asia,
    who deal with the issue of Russian (Soviet)
    'colonialism'?
    >I freely admit that I know virtually nothing
    about the topic, so any suggestions for readings
    would be very much appreciated.
    >Thank you in advance.
    >Yelena Furman
    >Department of Literature, UCSD
    >
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