The post-Soviet politics of Utopia : language, fiction and fantasy in modern Russia /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Suslov, Mikhail (Editor), Bodin, Per-Arne, 1949- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.
Subjects:	Russian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Politics in literature. Fantasy in literature. Russian literature > Political aspects. Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991- Since 1991 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Per-Arne Bodin, Mikhail Suslov
PART 1. (GEO)POLITICAL IMAGINATION
Chapter 1. Provinces, piety, and promotional Putinism:
Mapping Aleksandr Prokhanov's counter-utopian Russia, Edith W. Clowes
Chapter 2. Othering Russia: Eduard Limonov's retrofuturistic (anti- ) utopia, Andrei Rogatchevski
Chapter 3. Telluro-cosmic imperial utopia and contemporary Russian art, Maria Engström
PART 2. SCIENCE FICTION, IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS
Chapter 4. Conservative science fiction in contemporary Russian literature and politics, Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 5. Religio-political utopia by Iana Zavatskaia, Anastasia Mitrofanova
Chapter 6. "Respectable xenophobia:" Science fiction, utopia and conspiracy, Viktor Shnirel'man
PART 3. ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES, ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES
Chapter 7. Alternative Russian revolution: Viacheslav Rybakov and Kir Bulychev, Go Koshino
Chapter 8. Ressentiment and post-traumatic syndrome in Russian post-Soviet speculative fiction: Two trends, Maria Galina
PART 4. LANGUAGE IN/OF UTOPIA
Chapter 9. Church Slavonic in Russian dystopias and utopias, Per-Arne Bodin
Chapter 10. Contested utopias: Language ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped, Ingunn Lunde
Chapter 11. 'Londongrad' as a linguistic imaginary: Russophone migrants in the UK in the work of Michael Idov and Andrei Ostalsky, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
PART 5. POST-MODERN UTOPIA
Chapter 12. Parameters of space-time and degrees of (un)-freedom: Dmitry Bykov's ZhD, Sofya Khagi
Chapter 12. Lazarus on the ark: Heterotopias in the novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin, Muireann Maguire
Chapter 14. The new "norma": Vladimir Sorokin's Telluria and post-utopian science fiction, Mark Lipovetsky.