Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity

1. Introduction
Boris Noordenbos

2. The Black Holes of History: Narratives of Cultural Trauma
Boris Noordenbos

3. Post-totalitarian Identity and the Struggle with Literaturocentrism
Boris Noordenbos

4. Empire of Empty Signs: Russia’s Unsettling Imitations of “The West”
Boris Noordenbos

5. Imperial Stiob: The Aesthetics of Chauvinism
Boris Noordenbos

6. The Return of the Dead: Haunting Traumas and Nostalgic Dreams
Boris Noordenbos

7. Interpreting Gorbachev’s Birthmark: Conspiratorial Visions of Russian Identity
Boris Noordenbos

8. Conclusion
Boris Noordenbos

Nyckelord: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Cultural Theory