I always welcome new contributions to the study of the Gulag, particularly (because it is a dimension that remains much less explored than the history) those that focus on personal experiences of the Soviet labour camp system and the writings associated with it, so I was looking forward to reading Paul R. Gregory’s Women of […]
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Women in the Gulag
Posted by Sarah Young on November 11, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/11/11/women-in-the-gulag/
New article: Knowing Russia’s Convicts
This week has finally seen the publication of my article ‘Knowing Russia’s Convicts: the Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile in the Late Imperial Era’ in Europe-Asia Studies. It’s a special issue based on the Villains and Victims workshop which I wrote about previously, and it contains some great articles that really reflect what an […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 3, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/11/03/new-article-knowing-russias-convicts/
“Russians” in Lewes
Last weekend I visited Lewes to give a lecture on Crime and Punishment at the Lewes Little Theatre, ahead of their forthcoming production of the novel, which opens on 12 October. I had a wonderful time, with a very appreciative and knowledgeable audience, and really interesting discussions with the cast and production team, whose perspectives on Crime […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 29, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/09/29/russians-in-lewes/
New publications: the spatial turn
I have a couple of recent publications to announce. The first is on Shalamov: ‘Mapping Space as Factography: Human Traces and Negated Genres in Varlam Shalamov’s Kolymskie rasskazy,’ Slavonica, 19.1 (April 2013), 1-17 ) (£). The second, co-authored with John Levin, is ‘Mapping Machines: Transformations of the Petersburg Text’, The Spatial Turn in Literary Studies, Primerjalna književnost (Comparative Literature) 36.2 (2013). […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 15, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/09/15/new-publications-the-spatial-turn/
Top ten fictional writers in Russian literature
The Guardian’s list of the 10 best writers in novels is so patently rubbish (two each entries for Martin Amis and Stephen King!?) that I feel compelled to respond with my own round-up of fictional writers in Russian literature. The usual rule applies: no more than one work per author. On the basis that he […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 4, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/08/04/top-ten-fictional-writers-in-russian-literature/
From Herzen to Leskov, and back again
I’ve been re-reading Nikolai Leskov’s Cathedral Clergy (Soboriane) in the excellent recent translation by Margaret Winchell (Slavica, 2010) for a new undergraduate course I’m starting to teach in the Autumn, Identities in nineteenth-century Russian literature. The first part of the course – and in many ways the most interesting for me in terms of preparing […]
Posted by Sarah Young on July 10, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/07/10/from-herzen-to-leskov-and-back-again/
Crystal Palace (F. C.): Chernyshevsky’s barmy army
This piece first appeared on the SSEES Research Blog on 30 May 2013. When one thinks of Russian connections to English football, it is most likely the owners and shareholders of certain premier league clubs that will to spring to mind, or the small number of Russians who have played for English clubs, including Roman […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 12, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/06/12/crystal-palace-f-c-chernyshevskys-barmy-army/
Top ten undead in Russian literature
“The dead are people too.” Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the influence on nineteenth-century Russian literature of romantic and gothic sensibilities, and of fantastic writers from ETA Hoffmann to Edgar Allan Poe, the notion of the undead plays a significant role for some of the most prominent Russian writers. Encompassing not only […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 3, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/04/03/top-ten-undead-in-russian-literature/
Russian thought lecture 10: Utopias in Russian culture: of palaces and panopticons
Reading: Dostoevsky, “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (1877) So we come to the end of this lecture series, and a slightly different focus than previously, as theoretical works take a back seat, and we look instead at Russian literature and culture to explore the utopian theme. There are clearly strong utopian aspects to the work […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 12, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/03/12/russian-thought-lecture-10-utopias-in-russian-culture-of-palaces-and-panopticons/
Russian thought lecture 9: Nikolai Fedorov and the utopia of the resurrected
Reading: “The Question of Brotherhood or Relatedness, and the Reasons for the Unbrotherly, Dis-Related, or Unpeaceful State of the World, and of the Means for the Restoration of Relatedness” (from Philosophy of the Common Task) So we come to the penultimate lecture for this course, and turn our attention more fully to the question of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 5, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/03/05/russian-thought-lecture-9-nikolai-fedorov-and-the-utopia-of-the-resurrected/