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Vladimir Putin has tried to rationalize the 2014 annexation of Crimea as a defense of the "millions of Russian and russophone people" who live there--an irredentist logic that rests on an understanding of a unified, fixed, primordial "Russian-ness." Challenging this notion of an...
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The University of Wisconsin Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Madison, Wisconsin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vladimir Putin has tried to rationalize the 2014 annexation of Crimea as a defense of the "millions of Russian and russophone people" who live there--an irredentist logic that rests on an understanding of a unified, fixed, primordial "Russian-ness." Challenging this notion of an essential Russian identity that must be kept pure and whole, Global Russian Cultures explores the protean complexity of Russian culture as it has spread across the world through successive waves of migration. "Both within and without the Russian Federation," explains editor Kevin Platt, "Russian culture is fragmented and multiple." In revealing Russian cultures as plural, unbounded, and polycentric, this volume calls into question the exculpatory reasoning that fuels the Russian projection of power and, implicitly, similar imperial projects. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 386 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780299319748 (paperback) : 0299319741 (paperback) 9780299319700 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0299319709 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | DK35 |
| CLC: | K512.03 |
| Call Number: | K512.03/G562 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Putting Russian cultures in place / Kevin M. F. Platt -- A century of Russian culture(s) "abroad": the unfolding of literary geography / Maria Rubins -- Russophone writing in Ukraine: historical contexts and post-Euromaidan changes / Vitaly Chernetsky -- "Russian culture" in Central Asia as a transethnic phenomenon / Natalya Kosmarskaya and Artyom Kosmarski -- Distance and proximity in the Baltic "near abroad" / Kevin M. F. Platt -- History, diaspora, and geography: the case of Russian-Israeli cinema, 1991-2016 / Alex Moshkin -- Tell me your story: recent Russian-American writing / Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya -- Russia as whole and as fragments / Ilya Kukulin -- When soft power hardens: the formation and fracturing of Putin's "Russian world" / Michael S. Gorham -- Is there any such thing as "Russophone Russophobia"? When Russian speakers speak out against Russia(n) in the Ukrainian Internet / Dirk Uffelmann -- The most global Russian of all: Michael Idov's cosmopolitan oeuvre / Adrian Wanner -- The "globe-trotting Russian" in Scotland: discourses of Russian cultural tourism / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke -- Rewriting gender: Russian-American women writers and the challenge to Russian femininity / Yelena Furman -- Song in a strange land: the Russian musical lyric beyond the nation / Philip Ross Bullock -- Global transnational Russian culture: non-Russians writing Russian literature / Miriam Finkelstein. |