Clowes, Edith W.

Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity / Edith W. Clowes. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011. - xviii, 179 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Cornell paperbacks .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery? -- Deconstructing imperial Moscow -- Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world -- Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism -- Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus -- The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south -- Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.

9780801448560 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801448565 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801477256 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801477255 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Russian literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Russian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Nationalism and literature--Russia (Federation)
Cultural geography--Russia (Federation)
Territory, National--Russia (Federation)
Literatura rusa--Historia y crítica
Literatura rusa--Historia y crítica--Siglo 20.
Literatura rusa--Historia y crítica--Siglo 21.


Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life--1991-

PG 3027 / C648r 2011

891.73