Между «внутренней» и «внешней» колонизацией. Роман Веры Галактионовой Спящие от печали
Between “Internal” and “External” Colonization. Vera Galaktionova’s Novel Sleeping with Sorrow

Summary/Abstract: Postcolonial discourse in modern Russian literature is conditioned by the peculiarity of Russian colonization, which was most interestingly characterized by Alexander Etkind in his conception of “internal” and “external” colonization. This conception became the basis of the analyses of the novel Sleepers from the sorrow by Vera Galaktionova presented in this article. The action of the novel takes place in a small village in Northern Kazakhstan, inhabited basi­cally by Russians. The perception of the novel based on the conception of “internal” and “ex­ternal” colonization allows to explicate the connection between the postcolonial trauma and the moral and religious crisis, which hits not only the Russian minority in former Soviet republics, but the Russians in Russia as well.

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