Zaeldyz. About postcolonial aspects of Egor Radov’s “Yakutia”
The author analyzes the relationship between post-colonialism and postmodernism on the basis of Egor Radov’s novel Yakutia. The two currents are interrelated and affect both the aesthetics and the structure of the works. Their Russian variants, due to their particular interpretation of the colonial...
| Published in: | Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Polish |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.
2021
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| Online Access: | https://wuwr.pl/mpwr/article/view/13058 https://doi.org/10.19195/2353-8546.8.20 |
| Summary: | The author analyzes the relationship between post-colonialism and postmodernism on the basis of Egor Radov’s novel Yakutia. The two currents are interrelated and affect both the aesthetics and the structure of the works. Their Russian variants, due to their particular interpretation of the colonial issue, are very different from the Western models. Yakutia is an example of apostmodern novel in which the post-colonial context is abackground for philosophical and socio-political reflections. The novel combines various motifs characteristic of the genre of dystopia, popular in Russian postmodernism. The author analyzes the relationship between post-colonialism and postmodernism on the basis of Egor Radov’s novel Yakutia. The two currents are interrelated and affect both the aesthetics and the structure of the works. Their Russian variants, due to their particular interpretation of the colonial issue, are very different from the Western models. Yakutia is an example of apostmodern novel in which the post-colonial context is abackground for philosophical and socio-political reflections. The novel combines various motifs characteristic of the genre of dystopia, popular in Russian postmodernism. |
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