Reconfiguring the Russian Imperial Legacy: Victor Pelevin’s “Iakinf” as a Gothic Story.

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Abstract / Description of output

The chapter discusses Pelevin's story Iakinf (2019) as a Gothic story that engages with European and Russian Gothic writing. It is argued that it critiques Russian imperial ideology and its manifestations in Russian 19th-c.literature featuring the Caucasus. It demonstrates how the use of the fantastic tropes in the story satirises several post-Soviet metanarratives pertaining to Russian identity and Russian geopolitical imagination.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVictor Pelevin
Subtitle of host publicationPost-Soviet and Global
EditorsSofya Khagi, Tatian Filimonova, Boris Noordenbos
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
Number of pages15
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 27 Jun 2024

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Russian literature and society
  • Russian gothic literature
  • Russian postmodernism
  • postcolonial studies
  • comparative literature
  • Oriental themes

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