Narratives of Displacement

On Embodied Experience of Migration in Ulitskaya, Lindén, and Palei

Bibliographic Data

ID12920404
AuthorsMarja Sorvari (0000-0002-3311-726X, University of Eastern Finland, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue2-3
Pages350-366
Publication date2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/cww/vpab002
OpenAlexW3128576616
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This essay discusses representations of migrant experiences of displacement by Russian women writers Liudmila Ulitskaya, Zinaida Lindén, and Marina Palei. The theoretical approach is guided by feminist geography and narrative studies, with attention to the conceptualization of space and place through embodied everyday experiences. The authors represent different writerly positions with which today’s Russophone writers engage, including multilingual and multilocal trends in and outside post-Soviet Russia. Although Lindén and Palei reside outside and Ulitskaya in Russia, their texts address (post-)Soviet migration and displacement, bringing critical perspectives both to their new home countries and to their homeland, Russia. In each text literary figures question and/or oppose the colonizing histories of their homeland and rewrite their personal stories in the form of narratives of displacement

Aesthetics · Art · Conceptualization · Displacement (psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Homeland · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Psychology · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Travel Writing and Literature · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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