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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ftlinkoepinguniv:oai:DiVA.org:liu-175174 2023-05-15T17:24:57+02:00 The Continental Archipelago of Norilsk Dahlin, Johanna 2021 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-175174 https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.84 eng eng Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kultur, samhälle, form och medier Stockholm Karib - Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies, 1894-8421, 2021, 6:1, s. 1-10 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-175174 doi:10.16993/karib.84 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Norilsk Solzhenitsyn Gulag Glissant archipelagic thinking Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftlinkoepinguniv https://doi.org/10.16993/karib.84 2022-05-01T08:23:48Z 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 LIU - Linköping University: Publications (DiVA) Norilsk ENVELOPE(88.203,88.203,69.354,69.354) Penal ENVELOPE(100.667,100.667,-66.033,-66.033) Françoise ENVELOPE(70.250,70.250,-49.350,-49.350) 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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