Anna Barcz

Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe (eBook, PDF)

Literature, History and Memory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront climate change?

This is the first in-depth study of the legacy of the Soviet era on attitudes to the environment in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Exploring responses in literature, culture and film to political projects such as the collectivisation of agricultural land, the expansion of the mining industry and disasters such as the Chernobyl explosion, Anna Barcz opens up new understandings of local political traditions and examines how they might be harnessed in the cause of contemporary environmental activism. The book covers works by writers such as Christa Wolf, the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich and film-makers such as Béla Tarr, Andrzej Wajda and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350098367
• Artikelnr.: 60708078

Autorenporträt

Anna Barcz holds a PhD in literary studies from the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw where she currently works as an Assistant Professor; she was the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub (Trinity College Dublin) in 2018-2019, and Rachel Carson Centre Fellow (LMU, Munich) in 2019-2020. She is the author of books: Ecorealism: From Ecocriticism to Zoocriticism in Polish Literature (in Polish, 2016), and Animal Narratives and Culture: Vulnerable Realism (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Unknownland: Retelling the Environmental History of
Soviet Eastern Europe through Literature and Cultural Memory Chapter 1
Narrating History across Borders Chapter 2 History and Literature Chapter 3
Environmental History Chapter 4 Cultural and Environmental Memory Part II
The Tired Village Chapter 1 Historical Background Chapter 2 Fatigue:
Platonov's Pit and the Stalinocene Chapter 3 The Rural World is Gone:
Peasants' Voices Chapter 4 Satantango: Interconnecting the Human and
Ecological Worlds Part III The Earth's Memory Chapter 1 Mining Narratives
and Their Historical Background Chapter 2 Unearthing the Story of Coal:
Drach Chapter 3 The Uranium Narrative: History of a Disappearance Part IV
The Persistence of Chernobyl in Cultural Memory Chapter 1 Eastern European
Risk Narrative: Chernobyl Memorial Chapter 2 Contaminated Language: Wolf's
Accident Chapter 3 The Bees Knew: Alexievich's Chronicle Part V Disturbed
Landscapes Chapter 1 Non-sites of Memory and the Violation of Nature
Chapter 2 Greening Sites of Memory Chapter 3 Bialowieza Forest across
Eastern Europe's Borders Bibliography Index