Knowing Russia's Convicts: The Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile of the Late Imperial Era
The essay explores the significance of questions of knowledge to the depiction of prisoners in three prominent katorga narratives from the second half of the nineteenth century: Dostoevskii's Notes from the House of the Dead, Kennan's Siberia and the Exile System, and Chekhov's Sakhal...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:65:y:2013:i:9:p:1700-1715 2023-05-15T18:09:02+02:00 Knowing Russia's Convicts: The Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile of the Late Imperial Era Sarah J. Young http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09668136.2013.844509 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09668136.2013.844509 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:33:19Z The essay explores the significance of questions of knowledge to the depiction of prisoners in three prominent katorga narratives from the second half of the nineteenth century: Dostoevskii's Notes from the House of the Dead, Kennan's Siberia and the Exile System, and Chekhov's Sakhalin Island. Comparing the different discourses of unknowability these authors employ, it argues that the relationship of the writers or narrators to the outcast status of the convicts takes their texts beyond the immediate context, to shape views of the penal system as expressing the increasing instability of identity, social hierarchies and moral life in Russia. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin Siberia RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Penal ENVELOPE(100.667,100.667,-66.033,-66.033) |
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The essay explores the significance of questions of knowledge to the depiction of prisoners in three prominent katorga narratives from the second half of the nineteenth century: Dostoevskii's Notes from the House of the Dead, Kennan's Siberia and the Exile System, and Chekhov's Sakhalin Island. Comparing the different discourses of unknowability these authors employ, it argues that the relationship of the writers or narrators to the outcast status of the convicts takes their texts beyond the immediate context, to shape views of the penal system as expressing the increasing instability of identity, social hierarchies and moral life in Russia. |
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Knowing Russia's Convicts: The Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile of the Late Imperial Era |
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Knowing Russia's Convicts: The Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile of the Late Imperial Era |
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Knowing Russia's Convicts: The Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile of the Late Imperial Era |
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