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Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne > 2020 > 15 > 1
What this article attempts to gauge are the possibilities stemming from combining two methodologies: masculinity studies (as a part of gender studies) and ecocriticism/environmental studies. The material for the analysis is the novel by Sergei Lebedev, Oblivion. The author of the article reconstructs the hegemonic pattern of male initiation present in the novel and related with post-communist inheritance...
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Conversatoria Litteraria > 2016 > 10 > - > 331-344
In the 20th century, all the periodicals and literary journals were con-trolled by the USSR Union of Writers (Union of Soviet Writers) and thus literary works dealing with everyday life of Soviet forced-labour camp prisoners could only be published abroad. Once released from the camps, many Russian authors emigrated to the West where they could produce their literary works about life in the Gulag...
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Slavia Orientalis > 2005 > 54 > 2 > 187-205
All of Shalamov's prose works are deeply connected to his own personal experiences in the forced labor camps of Kolyma. Most of his Kolyma Tales are autobiographical and can be viewed as both historical records and literary works. The objectivity of Shalamov's prose only adds to the chilling intensity of the stories. The tales are a testament to Shalamov's seventeen years in Stalinist Gulags. Shalamov...
