„Spóźniony, zakłopotany spadkobierca”. Męskie inicjacje w cieniu łagru, purgi, totemicznej krwi
“A Late, Embarrassed Descendant”. Male Initiations in the Shadow of a Gulag Camp, Purga, and Totemic Blood
Author(s): Aleksandra UbertowskaSubject(s): Gender Studies, Energy and Environmental Studies, Russian Literature, Post-Communist Transformation, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Sergei Lebedev; ecocriticism; masculinity studies; gulag literature;
Summary/Abstract: What this article attempts to gauge are the possibilities stemming from combining two methodologies: masculinity studies (as a part of gender studies) and ecocriticism/environmental studies. The material for the analysis is the novel by Sergei Lebedev, Oblivion. The author of the article reconstructs the hegemonic pattern of male initiation present in the novel and related with post-communist inheritance of Grandfather II, one of the novel’s characters. Overcoming the imposed pattern of masculinity (authoritative, totalitarian) takes a form of journey into subarctic Russia and seeking the traces of gulag camps. Climate-related factors play a significant role in this process: motifs of Purga, of permafrost, and endemic plant species of Ural and Syberia.
Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 1 (15)
- Page Range: 1-15
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish