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Uncensored - Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence (Paperback)
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Uncensored - Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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Vasilii Aksenov, Andrei Bitov, and Venedikt Erofeev were among the
most acclaimed authors of samizdat, the literature that was
self-published in the former Soviet Union in order to evade
censorship and prosecution. In Uncensored, Ann Komaromi uses their
work to argue for a far more sophisticated understanding of the
phenomenon of samizdat, showing how the material circumstances of
its creation and dissemi nation exercised a profound influence on
the very idea of dissidence, reconfiguring the relationship between
author and reader. Using archival research to fully illustrate
samizdat's social and historical context, Komaromi arrives at a
more nuanced theoretical position that breaks down the opposition
between the autonomous work of art and direct political engagement.
The similarities between samizdat and digital culture have
particular relevance for contemporary discourses of dissident
subjectivity.
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