10. The Diasporic Canon of Russian Poetry: The Case of the Paris Note

Reclaiming Diasporic Voices: Unity or Difference? The canonical shifts that defined Russian literary history in the late twentieth century entailed not only a massive reassessment of Sovietera verse and the reintegration into the canon of previously silenced voices and texts, but also the recovery of diaspora poets. The rhetoric of a unified literature and canon that emerged in Russian criticism then and which prevails to this day constructs émigrés as prodigal sons, finally readmitte...