The Diaristic Form and Subjectivity under Khrushchev

Bibliographic Data

ID5010704
AuthorsAnatoly Pinsky (0000-0003-3317-7323, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume73
Issue4
Pages805-827
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5612/slavicreview.73.4.805
OpenAlexW2329367341
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited25

At the start of the post-Stalin period, writers and literary critics began to embrace the diaristic form as never before in Soviet history. In this article, I explore the gravitation toward this and other short and documentary genres. I foreground the subject of literary form, which has, I maintain, for too long remained in the background of scholarship on Soviet literature. The rise of a new privileged form was related dialogically to the emergence of a new normative subjectivity-one that called on citizens to engage in meticulous empirical investigations of Soviet life and to arrive at and advance their own critical conclusions about Soviet reality. In advancing these arguments, I revise the interpretations of Soviet literary history that have highlighted the significance of the novel, contributing to a growing body of scholarship on the history of Soviet subjectivity

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · History of literature · Literature · Normative · Period (music · Political science · Scholarship · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Central European national history · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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