Bradley A Gorski
Biographic Data
| ID | 958898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley A Gorski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorski |
| SIGNATURE | GORSKI B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches a range of courses on Russian and comparative literature, culture, and film. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3697-0581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Market
A capitalist market has been part of modern Russian literature since at least the early nineteenth century. Even during the Soviet era, the market was never entirely abolished. But when socialism fell in 1991, capitalism rushed in. This chapter focuses on the economic, social, and aesthetic consequences of the market in post-Soviet Russian literature. The book market boomed just as thick journals and legacy critics lost cultural authority, and as…
Red Migrations
Medea. Dir. Aleksandr Zeldovich. Kinokompaniia “11,” 2021. 139 minutes. Color. https
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The Bestseller, or The Cultural Logic of Postsocialism
When the word "bestseller" entered post-Soviet Russia, it was invested with transformational power to remake postsocialist culture according to capitalist models of exchange. From its appearance in the early 1990s to its apotheosis as the name of a new literary prize in 2001, the bestseller demonstrated the active power of cultural categories. It built a data-gathering apparatus around itself, shifted the ways that authors, publishers, and audien…
The Battle for (Pre‐)Modernity
In May 2016 a medieval Russian “knight” lanced a drone out of the skies above Lipetsk. The assailant was part of the Rusborg Historical Festival, one of hundreds of medieval re‐enactment events that have sprung up across Russia since 2000 and have gained widespread popularity in recent years. This article considers these festivals as part of a larger trend in neomedievalism that has come to occupy a surprisingly prominent place in contemporary Ru…
Down Among the Fishes by Natalka Babina
100 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews This triangle resonates throughout the novel. But the geopolitical forces spawned by 9/11 drive the plot: “History is the third parent.” Accompanying Rohan on a journey to Peshawar , Jeo and Mikal surreptitiously enter Afghanistan, in “the crosshairs of history,” to help wounded civilians . Foredoomed by Kyra, sold by warlords to the Taliban, attacked by anti-Taliban villagers, Jeo dies, and Mikal is taken int…
Snow Germans by Dmitry Vachedin
reviews Turkey and its people alongside her. A Turkish reader will understand this familiar story of rebellion against family and traditions. Special attention is paid to the deeply symbolic veil that is a prominent motif in the novel. Because the details about Turkey are told through the perspective of an outsider, the feeling of being veiled and protected from real life is potent in the story. Both men and women, whether they look towards home …
A Displaced Person
Philip Hensher Scenes from Early Life Faber & Faber A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir, Philip Hensher’s latest novel recounts the childhood of his husband in what is now Bangladesh. The little boy must navigate his way to maturity through the violence of Bangladesh’s split from Pakistan, all the while avoiding the more commonplace pitfalls of early life. Personal and collective memories combine to form this novel’s foundations. Vanessa Geb…
Petroleum Venus
Claire Messud. The Woman Upstairs. New York. Knopf. 2013. isbn 9780307596901 Claire Messud is a confident and stylish writer, as she has proven in previous novels such as The Emperor’s Children . Those adjectives set her apart from her first-person narrator in The Woman Upstairs, third-grade teacher Nora Eldridge, the self-anointed “woman upstairs.” But this dichotomy also creates a problem for the novel. Nora’s words and thoughts arrive via Mess…
Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
Anita Endrezze Butterfly Moon University of Arizona Press Butterfly Moon marks the seventy-second volume of Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary Series. The consistently high standards of the series are maintained in this volume of fifteen deftly constructed tales. The stories negotiate through myth and reality and are inspired by the Yaqui, Slovenian, German, Italian, and Romanian roots of Anita Endrezze. march–april 2013 • 143 Dung Kai-cheun…
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A Displaced Person
Philip Hensher Scenes from Early Life Faber & Faber A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir, Philip Hensher’s latest novel recounts the childhood of his husband in what is now Bangladesh. The little boy must navigate his way to maturity through the violence of Bangladesh’s split from Pakistan, all the while avoiding the more commonplace pitfalls of early life. Personal and collective memories combine to form this novel’s foundations. Vanessa Geb…
Petroleum Venus
Claire Messud. The Woman Upstairs. New York. Knopf. 2013. isbn 9780307596901 Claire Messud is a confident and stylish writer, as she has proven in previous novels such as The Emperor’s Children . Those adjectives set her apart from her first-person narrator in The Woman Upstairs, third-grade teacher Nora Eldridge, the self-anointed “woman upstairs.” But this dichotomy also creates a problem for the novel. Nora’s words and thoughts arrive via Mess…
Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
Anita Endrezze Butterfly Moon University of Arizona Press Butterfly Moon marks the seventy-second volume of Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary Series. The consistently high standards of the series are maintained in this volume of fifteen deftly constructed tales. The stories negotiate through myth and reality and are inspired by the Yaqui, Slovenian, German, Italian, and Romanian roots of Anita Endrezze. march–april 2013 • 143 Dung Kai-cheun…
Down Among the Fishes by Natalka Babina
100 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews This triangle resonates throughout the novel. But the geopolitical forces spawned by 9/11 drive the plot: “History is the third parent.” Accompanying Rohan on a journey to Peshawar , Jeo and Mikal surreptitiously enter Afghanistan, in “the crosshairs of history,” to help wounded civilians . Foredoomed by Kyra, sold by warlords to the Taliban, attacked by anti-Taliban villagers, Jeo dies, and Mikal is taken int…
Snow Germans by Dmitry Vachedin
reviews Turkey and its people alongside her. A Turkish reader will understand this familiar story of rebellion against family and traditions. Special attention is paid to the deeply symbolic veil that is a prominent motif in the novel. Because the details about Turkey are told through the perspective of an outsider, the feeling of being veiled and protected from real life is potent in the story. Both men and women, whether they look towards home …
The Battle for (Pre‐)Modernity
In May 2016 a medieval Russian “knight” lanced a drone out of the skies above Lipetsk. The assailant was part of the Rusborg Historical Festival, one of hundreds of medieval re‐enactment events that have sprung up across Russia since 2000 and have gained widespread popularity in recent years. This article considers these festivals as part of a larger trend in neomedievalism that has come to occupy a surprisingly prominent place in contemporary Ru…
The Bestseller, or The Cultural Logic of Postsocialism
When the word "bestseller" entered post-Soviet Russia, it was invested with transformational power to remake postsocialist culture according to capitalist models of exchange. From its appearance in the early 1990s to its apotheosis as the name of a new literary prize in 2001, the bestseller demonstrated the active power of cultural categories. It built a data-gathering apparatus around itself, shifted the ways that authors, publishers, and audien…
Medea. Dir. Aleksandr Zeldovich. Kinokompaniia “11,” 2021. 139 minutes. Color. https
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Market
A capitalist market has been part of modern Russian literature since at least the early nineteenth century. Even during the Soviet era, the market was never entirely abolished. But when socialism fell in 1991, capitalism rushed in. This chapter focuses on the economic, social, and aesthetic consequences of the market in post-Soviet Russian literature. The book market boomed just as thick journals and legacy critics lost cultural authority, and as…
Red Migrations
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