Toward a Bisexual Poetics: Articulating a Bisexual Subjectivity in Russian

• In Event: Beyond the Binary: Bisexual, Trans, and Non-Binary Russian Subjectivities

Abstract

In this paper, I demonstrate the various strategies that bisexual Russian authors have employed in order to situate their work and personas in a distinctly bisexual space. Through analysis of work by writers such as Snezhana Ra and Vadim Kalinin, I explore how Russian authors have attempted to articulate bisexual subjectivity in their work without it instead being read as ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’. I consider how linguistic strategies, literary influences, and thematization contribute to the generation of their bisexual aesthetics.

Author

• Rowan Dowling, U of Oxford (UK)