{"id":5226,"date":"2011-06-04T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:37:53","slug":"repetition-repetition-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/2011\/06\/04\/repetition-repetition-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"Repetition, Repetition, Repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My article, &#8216;Recalling the Dead: Repetition, Identity, and the Witness in Varlam Shalamov&#8217;s <em>Kolymskie rasskazy<\/em>,&#8217; has been published in the latest issue of\u00a0<em><a title=\"Slavic Review current issue contents page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slavicreview.illinois.edu\/current\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slavic Review<\/a> <\/em>(vol. 70. 2, 2011, pp. 353-72).<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I examine different types of repetition in Shalamov&#8217;s <em>Kolyma Tales<\/em>, from the repeated narration of the same incident in different tales, to the appearance of recurring characters, the formation of doubles, and the narrator&#8217;s <em>alter egos<\/em>, as expressions of the tensions created by the destruction of identity in the labour camp. Placing this question within the context of the problem of memory facing the Gulag survivor\/narrator, I show how repetition becomes central to the depiction of the traumatized consciousness in the act of writing. With reference to Giorgio Agamben&#8217;s theorization of the non-survivor as the true witness to Auschwitz, and his identification of two forms of witnessing, I argue that the reader, through their response to repetition, is drawn into the text to become one of those witnesses, so that Shalamov&#8217;s stories bear witness to the trauma of Kolyma, and those who did not survive it, through a reciprocity of text and reader, rather than through a transformation or recovery of the writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article, &#8216;Recalling the Dead: Repetition, Identity, and the Witness in Varlam Shalamov&#8217;s Kolymskie rasskazy,&#8217; has been published in the latest issue of\u00a0Slavic Review (vol. 70. 2, 2011, pp. 353-72). In this article, I examine different types of repetition in Shalamov&#8217;s Kolyma Tales, from the repeated narration of the same incident in different tales, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[529,7,333],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulag","tag-gulag","tag-shalamov","tag-the-fall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwXo-1mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5253,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahjyoung.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}