Siberian Ecocritical Fiction

• In Event: Siberian Text of Russian Culture?

Abstract

This paper puts a spotlight on contemporary Siberian literature through the lens of postcolonial ecocriticism. Taking as its case-study the works of Yeremi Aipin, it examines what Siberian ecocritical texts tell us about Russian and local Siberian understandings of modernity and tradition, the accountability and guilt around the loss of traditional lifestyle in Siberia, and how these factors shape the cultural position of these texts within the Russian canon and postcolonial ecofiction more broadly.

Author

• Tamar Koplatadze, U of Oxford (UK)