Litteratur som motstånd: samtida ryskspråkig litteratur

Theoretical texts

Fish, M. S. 2017. "The Kremlin Emboldened: What is Putinism?" Journal of Democracy 28 (4) (10): 61-75. (*University library resource*; 14 pages)

Harlow, Barbara. 2023/1987. Resistance literature. Routledge. (University Library resource; approximately 80 pages. Information regarding chapters will be provided via the university learning platform)

Hanukai, Maksim. 2023. “Russian Actionism as Biopolitical Performance: Shifting Grounds and Forms of Resistance.” Russian Literature 141: 111–42. (*University library resource*; 31 pages)

Koposov, Nikolay. 2018. "The cult of the war" in Memory laws, memory wars. The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia. (*University library resource*; 12 pages)

Leuschner, Eric. 2019. "The Literature of Protest and the Consumption of Activism." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 52, No. 2 pp. 71–94. (*University library resource*; 23 pages)

Lipovetsky, Mark. "Post-Soviet Literature between Realism and Postmodernism." In The Cambridge companion to Russian Literature, edited by Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina, pp. 175 - 194. (*University library resource*; 19 pages)

Lipovetsky, M., & Platt, K. M. F. (2023). ”The russophone literature of resistance.” World Literature Today, 97(2), 38–41. (University Library resource, 5 pages)

Lipovetsky, M., & Platt, K. M. F. (2023). ”A Conversation with Maria Stepanova.” World Literature Today, 97(2), 42–45. (University library resource; 5 pages)

Noordenbos, Boris. ”Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda.” Memory Studies. 2022, Vol. 15(6) 1299–1302. (*University library resource;*3 pages)

Podlevskikh Carlström, Malin. 2024. ”It’s all about Russia: the reception of contemporary Russian literature in Sweden.” Perspectives. (*University Library resource*; 14 pages)

Puleri, Marco. 2020. "Introduction: From (Global) Russian to Ukrainian Culture—and Back Again," in *Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian*: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics. Berlin: Peter Lang. (University library resource; 28 pages)

Woodyard, Kerith M. 2014. “Pussy Riot and the Holy Foolishness of Punk.” Rock Music Studies 1 (3): 268–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2014.949555. (University library resource; 18 pages)

Audiovisuellt material samt ytterligare 50 sidor litteratur, tillgänglig i form av e-publikationer tillkommer. Information om detta publiceras på kursens sida i lärplattformen innan kursstart.

Audiovisual material as well as an additional 50 pages of literature, available as e-publications, will be added. Information about this is published on the course page in the learning platform before the start of the course.

Literary texts (below listed in English translation, but may also be read in the original or in translation to other languages)

Maria Stepanova. 2026. The disappearing act, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dougdale. Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN: 978-1804272329, or the same title by New Directions Publishing Corporation. ISBN: 978-0811239400) (136 pages)

Mikhail Shishkin. 2024. My Russia. War or Peace?, translated from the Russian by Gesche Ipsen. Quercus Publishing. ISBN: 9781529427813 (235 pages)

Sergei Lebedev. 2025. The Lady of the Mine, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. New Vessel Press. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN: 978-1035917662 (240 pages)

Vladimir Sorokin. 2024. Red Pyramid, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton. New York Review Books. (288 pages)

Audiovisuellt material samt ytterligare ca 100 sidor (noveller, poesi, essäer) tillgänglig i form av e-publikationer eller PDF-filer uppladdade på lärplattformen tillkommer. Information om detta publiceras på kursens sida i lärplattformen innan kursstart.

Audiovisual material as well as an additional 100 pages of literature (short stories, poetry, essays), available as e-publications or PDF-files uploaded to the learning platform, will be added. Information about this is published on the course page in the learning platform before the start of the course.