The Synchronous War Novel
Ordeal of the Unarmed Person in Serhiy Zhadan'sInternat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4209340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya Zaharchenko (0000-0002-8900-1880, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 410-429 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/slr.2019.95 |
| OpenAlex | W2966487840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
In Serhiy Zhadan's recent novelInternat(2017), the protagonist epitomizes the quintessential east Ukrainian under scrutiny today, while his journey depicts working through trauma. His transformation portrays the ultimate shedding of melancholy when, in response to violence, the past is replaced by the present. I elicit some of the key symbols and features of this process, which I call triggered mourning, and attend to the role of real-time menace in initiating it. This article draws connections not only between the story's plot arc and the ongoing war, but also between Ukraine's past and present from the perspective of trauma theory. The four sections of the article (on the transformation, the void, the defect, and the antidote) propose and expand upon the notion thatInternatis a synchronous war novel-a narrative that emerges parallel to, and closely entwined with, unfolding warfare-and examine its significance for scholarship on Ukraine, for Slavic studies, and beyond. Trauma studies in the context of literature are central to this analysis, with postcolonial studies providing some helpful illustrative parallels
Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Parallels · Plot (graphics · Political science · Scholarship · Scrutiny · Sociology · Trial by ordeal · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Soviet and Russian History
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Trauma, Narrative, and Two Forms of Death
Writing against Memory and Forgetting
While the Ox Is Still Alive
Postcolonial Witnessing
Dissociation, Spirit Possession, and the Languages of Trauma in Some Recent African-British Novels
Ethnic Conflict and International Security
Literary history as provocation of national identity, national identity as provocation of literary history
On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies
The White Chalk of Days
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Trauma, Absence, Loss
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |