AATSEEL panelist needed: Imagined Geographies

[Tatiana Filimonova]

Dear colleagues,

We are looking for a third panelist for our panel on "Imagined Geographies
in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Russia." (Title is tentative).
Please take a look at the panel description below and, if interested,
e-mail me the abstract of your proposed paper preferably by Friday, June 29.

During the twentieth century Russia experienced many geopolitical
transformations, including territorial acquisitions and losses by the
Tsarist empire, post-revolutionary migrations, frequent shifts in occupying
powers during the Civil War, the partitioning of Europe that followed World
War Two, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Because of these
transformations, geographical space plays an important role in
twentieth-century Russian literature and visual arts. Our panel will
address this connection between geographical space and Russian identity and
culture using the notion of "imagined geographies" recently formulated by
Edith Clowes as “geographical images endowed with complex post-Soviet
attitudes toward self and other, tradition and change, ethnicity and
multiculturalism, the state and the nature of citizenship” (Clowes 2011). While
this definition emphasizes the connection between space and identity
specifically in the post-Soviet period, our panel will consider metaphors
of geographical space both before and after 1991.
So far we have:
(1) a paper on Andrei Platonov's spatial notion of "the land of the past"
and its relationship to "verbal grounds" and irony in Chevengur. (Conor
Klamann, Northwestern University)
(2) a paper on post-Soviet identity and imperial nostalgia in the novels of
Pavel Krusanov. (Tatiana Filimonova, Vanderbilt
University)




Best,

Tatiana

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