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In Search of the True Russia - The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse (Hardcover)
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In Search of the True Russia - The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse (Hardcover)
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Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's
cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at the contested place
of the provinces in twenty-first-century Russian literature and
popular culture, addressing notions of nationalism, authenticity,
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postimperial identity. Surveying a
largely unexplored body of Russian journalism, literature, and film
from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Parts
finds that the harshest portrayals of the provinces arise within
""high"" culture. Popular culture, however, has increasingly turned
from the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to
celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national traditions
and moral strength. This change, she argues, has directed debate
about Russia's identity away from its loss of imperial might and
global prestige and toward a hermetic national identity based on
the opposition of ""us vs. us"" rather than ""us vs. them."" She
offers an intriguing analysis of the contemporary debate over what
it means to be Russian and where ""true"" Russians reside.
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