The Continental Archipelago of Norilsk
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn made famous the image of the Soviet prison system Gulag as an archipelago. In this paper, Solzhenitsyn’s idea of the Gulag archipelago is juxtaposed with French Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s notion of archipelagic thinking. The focus is on...
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ftjkarib:oai:ojs.karib.no:article/84 2023-05-15T17:24:57+02:00 The Continental Archipelago of Norilsk Dahlin, Johanna 2021-04-16 application/pdf application/xml https://www.karib.no/jms/article/view/84 https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.84 eng eng Stockholm University Press https://www.karib.no/jms/article/view/84/74 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/view/84/75 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/82 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/83 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/84 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/85 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/86 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/87 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/88 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/downloadSuppFile/84/89 10.16993/karib.84 https://www.karib.no/jms/article/view/84 doi:10.16993/karib.84 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). CC-BY Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 6 2387-6743 1894-8421 Norilsk Solzhenitsyn Gulag Glissant archipelagic thinking info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftjkarib https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.84 2021-08-11T09:06:52Z Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn made famous the image of the Soviet prison system Gulag as an archipelago. In this paper, Solzhenitsyn’s idea of the Gulag archipelago is juxtaposed with French Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s notion of archipelagic thinking. The focus is on the mining city Norilsk in Northern Siberia, one of the “islands” in this penal geography, a city that was largely built using forced labour. It is a long way from the Caribbean to Siberia, but both archipelagos (real and conceptual) share a history that can be termed colonial. While the system that created this penal archipelago of the Gulag was, in Glissant’s terms, a manifestation of thoroughly continental thinking, complete with grand, universalizing tendencies, it may also be possible to sense the diversity and interconnectedness that he attributed to the archipelago. The case of Norilsk is examined through the 2017 documentary A Moon of Nickel and Ice by Canadian film-maker Françoise Jacob. Glissant’s ideas are used to open up and pose questions, rather than to provide definitive answers. Article in Journal/Newspaper norilsk Siberia Karib - Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies Françoise ENVELOPE(70.250,70.250,-49.350,-49.350) Norilsk ENVELOPE(88.203,88.203,69.354,69.354) Penal ENVELOPE(100.667,100.667,-66.033,-66.033) Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies 6 1 |
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Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn made famous the image of the Soviet prison system Gulag as an archipelago. In this paper, Solzhenitsyn’s idea of the Gulag archipelago is juxtaposed with French Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s notion of archipelagic thinking. The focus is on the mining city Norilsk in Northern Siberia, one of the “islands” in this penal geography, a city that was largely built using forced labour. It is a long way from the Caribbean to Siberia, but both archipelagos (real and conceptual) share a history that can be termed colonial. While the system that created this penal archipelago of the Gulag was, in Glissant’s terms, a manifestation of thoroughly continental thinking, complete with grand, universalizing tendencies, it may also be possible to sense the diversity and interconnectedness that he attributed to the archipelago. The case of Norilsk is examined through the 2017 documentary A Moon of Nickel and Ice by Canadian film-maker Françoise Jacob. Glissant’s ideas are used to open up and pose questions, rather than to provide definitive answers. |
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