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In Search of the True Russia: The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse

In Search of the True Russia: The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse

Parts, Lyudmila

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Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0299317609
ISBN13: 9780299317607
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Jun 26 2018
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at the contested place of the provinces in twenty-first-century Russian literature and popular culture, addressing notions of nationalism, authenticity, Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postimperial identity.

Surveying a largely unexplored body of Russian journalism, literature, and film from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Parts finds that the harshest portrayals of the provinces arise within high culture. Popular culture, however, has increasingly turned from the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national traditions and moral strength. This change, she argues, has directed debate about Russia's identity away from its loss of imperial might and global prestige and toward a hermetic national identity based on the opposition of us vs. us rather than us vs. them. She offers an intriguing analysis of the contemporary debate over what it means to be Russian and where true Russians reside.

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