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Образы насилия в русской «новой драме»
ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN DRAMA

Author(s): Aleksandra Szymańska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Russian “New Drama”; communicative violence; Presnyakov brothers; Ksenia Dragunskaya; Farid Nagim

Summary/Abstract: The starting point for the analyses has been Mark Lipovetsky and Birgit Beumers’ study „Performing Violence”, which investigates the violent portrayal of the identity crisis of a generation in 21st-century Russian theatrical works. In the present paper, three dramas by contemporary Russian playwrights – Ksenia Dragunskaya, the Presnyakov brothers and Farid Nagim – are analyzed. In their plays they concentrate on the dynamic changes taking place in the sphere of public life in the post-Soviet country. A dominant feature of their plays is the deep crisis of identity of the post-Soviet society which manifests itself in acts of communicative violence.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 223-230
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian
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