Leona Toker

Return from the Archipelago

Narratives of Gulag Survivors

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanisation, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives - arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, escape, and more - the author discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of accounts of the Gulag experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780253337870
• ISBN-10: 0253337879
• Artikelnr.: 21297436

Autorenporträt

Leona Toker is Professor of English at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her previous works include Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures and Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Introduction
1. Soviet Labor Camps: A Brief History
2. The Literary Corpus: Memoirs
3. Camp Memoirs as a Genre
4. The Gulag Archipelago
5. From Factography to Fictionalization
6. Varlam Shalamov
7. The Gulag Fiction of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
8. In the Wake of Testimony
Notes
Works Cited
Index