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Writing on the Margins? Building the New Literary Economy in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Russophone Literature
- Source :
- eSamizdat, Vol 14, Pp 105-120 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Aracne editrice, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper explores the process of building a new literary community of the younger Russian-language writers in Kazakhstan starting from the 2000s. As a response to the shortcomings of previous literary infrastructure, writers created new ways of writing and literary interactions that can be called a new literary economy. The concept of literary economy refers to the act of a new literature creating its own infrastructure and literary space, with the objective of joining the world literary space. The younger Kazakhstani authors produce a new type of literature by (re-)writing language, time and space, and in doing so they produce new bilingual, historical and spatial imagination that results in a new identity. In this process of rewriting, authors create surplus value for their works and capitalize on their particular literary and cultural identities. By ‘value’ I mean new meanings and new ways of being Russophone.
Details
- Language :
- Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, English, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian
- ISSN :
- 17234042
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- eSamizdat
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.28de04a739c548d0af4e1440106fd94f
- Document Type :
- article