Siberian Text of Russian Culture?

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The Saint Petersburg and Moscow texts have long been canonical within Slavic studies, forming well-established genres with distinct cultural significance. However, can we delineate a Siberian text—one where Siberia is conceived and stylized as a symbolic locale? By exploring artistic representations of Siberia in the works of often understudied figures—those born in or exiled to the region—what kinds of imaginary geographies and affective attachments emerge? More fundamentally, what are the critical and theoretical stakes involved in mapping a Siberian text?

Sub Unit

• Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Chair

• Nataliya Karageorgos, Wesleyan U

Papers

• Eco-Theophany and Silence in the Siberian Text: Astafiev’s 'Dewdrop' and Rasputin’s 'Live and Love' - Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy Cross

• Loneliness and Isolation in Siberian Punk - Jacob Christopher Richey, U of Pittsburgh

• Eating Siberia: Piotr Dravert’s Materialist Aesthetics -

• Siberian Ecocritical Fiction - Tamar Koplatadze, U of Oxford (UK)

Discussant

• Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College