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Extraterritoriality as Cultural Capital in the Global Russian Literary Marketplace

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Abstract

The present situation of multiple significant populations of extraterritorial Russians and Russophones, located in diverse societies all over the globe, yet interconnected by networks of publishing, communication and human mobility, has given rise to a generation of authors living in Italy (Alexandra Petrova), Israel (Gali-Dana Singer), the United States (Katia Kapovich), etc. writing both for audiences in their adopted homelands and for those in the Russian Federation, and deriving some part of their prominence in each location from their linkages and successes in the other. On the basis of examinations of histories of publication, critical responses, literary prizes and other recognitions of a series of contemporary extraterritorial Russian authors, this paper seeks to assess the reputational value of diverse “geographical identities”—the cultural capital of extraterritoriality.

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