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Resisting 'Recumblency on The Past': Literary Stratigies for Overcoming Retromania Maria Stepanova's Novel 'In Memory of Memory', 2017. / Novikova, Svetlana.
Convention 2019 “Modernization and Multiple Modernities” : Proceedings of the All-Russian Research Conference. 2020. p. 212-222 (KnE Social Science; Vol. 2020).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in an anthology › peer-review
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T1 - Resisting 'Recumblency on The Past': Literary Stratigies for Overcoming Retromania Maria Stepanova's Novel 'In Memory of Memory', 2017
AU - Novikova, Svetlana
N1 - Svetlana Novikova, (2020), “Resisting ’Recumbency on The Past ’: Literary Strategies for Overcoming Retromania inMaria Stepanova’s Novel In Memory of Memory, (2017)” in Convention 2019 “Modernization and Multiple Modernities”, KnE Social Sciences, pages212–222. DOI 10.18502/kss.v4i13.7716
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - This article discusses the philosophical semi-documentary novel In Memory of Memoryby Maria Stepanova (2017). The narrative about the past can be interpreted as astrategy of dealing with the dominant retro-utopian sentiments in Russian society.The history of several generations of Stepanova’s own family is depicted against thebackdrop of tragic twentieth-century Russian upheavals which are transformed intoa meta-novel focusing on the workings of memory and ways of articulating it. Thearticle identifies two strategies used in Stepanova’s novel to counter retro-utopianism.The first strategy is the choice of a hybrid genre – documentary fiction – to recountthe events of family and national history. The second strategy relies on the conceptof memory as a catalogue used to complete the ’work of grief’ in Russian literatureand to help it escape its fixation on the past. These strategies in Stepanova’s novelappear to be closely connected with her reception of W.G. Sebald’s (1944-2001) works,in particular his documentary fiction
AB - This article discusses the philosophical semi-documentary novel In Memory of Memoryby Maria Stepanova (2017). The narrative about the past can be interpreted as astrategy of dealing with the dominant retro-utopian sentiments in Russian society.The history of several generations of Stepanova’s own family is depicted against thebackdrop of tragic twentieth-century Russian upheavals which are transformed intoa meta-novel focusing on the workings of memory and ways of articulating it. Thearticle identifies two strategies used in Stepanova’s novel to counter retro-utopianism.The first strategy is the choice of a hybrid genre – documentary fiction – to recountthe events of family and national history. The second strategy relies on the conceptof memory as a catalogue used to complete the ’work of grief’ in Russian literatureand to help it escape its fixation on the past. These strategies in Stepanova’s novelappear to be closely connected with her reception of W.G. Sebald’s (1944-2001) works,in particular his documentary fiction
KW - M. Stepanova
KW - W.G. Sebald
KW - documentary fiction
KW - meta-novel
KW - retromania
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345783237_Resisting_'Recumbency_on_The_Past_'_Literary_Strategies_for_Overcoming_Retromania_in_Maria_Stepanova's_Novel_In_Memory_of_Memory_2017
UR - https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/7716
M3 - Article in an anthology
T3 - KnE Social Science
SP - 212
EP - 222
BT - Convention 2019 “Modernization and Multiple Modernities”
T2 - Modernization and Multiple Modernities
Y2 - 20 May 2019 through 23 May 2019
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