Стратификация русскоязычного литературного сообщества Латвии, или ≪Кто Я?≫
Stratification of the Russian-Speaking Literary Community of Latvia, or “Who am I?”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of Russian-language literature in Latvia following the criteria for defining it as a minority literature. The author describes the autonomous mechanisms of legitimisation — Latvian publishing houses, periodicals, poetry festivals specialising in the popularisation of contemporary Russian literaturę — and identifies several strategies of self-identification of Russian-speaking writers in Latvia. She also concludes that in the new, “after 24 February 2022” context for Russian culture, the Russian-speaking Latvian literary community, just as after 1991, is experiencing serious tremors, leading to its greater polarisation. The author paid special attention to the artistic presentation of the new social reality — ‘emigration without emigration’ — with the leitmotifs of the new refugee and counter-memory, which have recently gained in importance.

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