Warped Mourning

preview-18
  • Warped Mourning Book Detail

  • Author : Alexander Etkind
  • Release Date : 2013-03-06
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 326
  • ISBN 13 : 0804785538
  • File Size : 83,83 MB

Warped Mourning by Alexander Etkind PDF Summary

Book Description: “[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too.” —The Economist After Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book’s premise is that late Soviet and post-Soviet culture, haunted by its past, has produced a unique set of memorial practices. More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains “the land of the unburied”: the events of the mid-twentieth century are still very much alive, and still contentious. Alexander Etkind shows how post-Soviet Russia has turned the painful process of mastering the past into an important part of its political present. “Every page contains fresh, striking insights, not only in the intrinsic value of art itself, but more significantly in the process of mourning. . . . This brilliant book will be indispensable for scholars of mourning theories.” —Choice “There is undoubtedly much that is new and exciting in this study of the impact of state violence on the form and content of art and scholarship in post-Stalin Russia.” —Russian Review “A fascinating and haunting study of how successive Kremlin leaders and the intelligentsia have explained the Gulag and Stalin’s crimes” —Strategic Europe

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Warped Mourning books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Warped Mourning

Warped Mourning

File Size : 78,78 MB
Total View : 4008 Views
DOWNLOAD

“[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too.” �

Right to Mourn

Right to Mourn

File Size : 52,52 MB
Total View : 4478 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War. Only

Encountering the Past within the Present

Encountering the Past within the Present

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 6958 Views
DOWNLOAD

Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time examines different encounters with the past from within the present – whether as commemor

Ethics of Political Commemoration

Ethics of Political Commemoration

File Size : 74,74 MB
Total View : 883 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book proposes a new Ethics of Political Commemoration adapted from the Just War tradition, reflecting that remembrance is often conducted with political �

Sincerity after Communism

Sincerity after Communism

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 1238 Views
DOWNLOAD

A compelling study of new sincerity as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows