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

Alexandra Smith

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

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Abstract

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Victor Pelevin
Subtitle of host publication	Post-Soviet and Global
Editors	Sofya Khagi, Tatian Filimonova, Boris Noordenbos
Publisher	University of Toronto Press
Number of pages	15
Publication status	Accepted/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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