Belarus--alternative visions : nation, memory and cosmopolitanism / Simon Lewis.
Belarus is often regarded as "Europe's last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus's development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debate...
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| 520 | |a Belarus is often regarded as "Europe's last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus's development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus's identity, revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography, films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths - the "peasant nation" of the nineteenth century, the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural, linguistic and ethnic polyphony, both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus, in Belarusian, Polish and Russian, revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated. -- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- A note on transliteration, translation and proper nouns -- Introduction: alternative visions -- The Commonwealth and its afterlife -- Delayed nationalism -- Accidents and contingencies -- On postcolonial memory -- Haunting and hunting -- Plan of the book -- Notes -- PART I: Contexts (1800-1991) -- Chapter 1: An abundant harvest: the emergence of Belarusian memory -- Between Orientalism and pan-Slavism: Belarusian peasants in Polish discourse -- The denial of alterity: the Belarusians in Russian discourse -- Empathetic memory: Jan Barszczewski -- The othering of memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: By force of myth: the making of the partisan republic -- Making, breaking and fighting memory -- Of heroes and beasts -- The collective hero: metonymic supermen -- The sacrificial victim -- Martyrdom and glory: Khatyn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART II: Texts of resistance (1956-1991) -- Chapter 3: Memory at war: un-writing the partisan republic -- Dubious heroics and broken identity -- The politics of pain -- Partisans and other voices -- Towards Belarusian history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Retrofitting rebellion: defiance and laughter as hybrid memory -- The Kalinouski effect: national revival in the past and present -- The peasant Christ: writing as rebellion -- A minor nation -- Laughing memory in the Boat of Despair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART III: Texts of renewal (1991-2016) -- Chapter 5: Still fighting: the afterlife of the partisan republic -- 'We are partisans': reclaiming the myth -- The fractious heirs of Partizanfilm -- The partisan parody -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Divided legacies: towards cosmopolitan mourning -- Belarus as ruin and archive: Ihar Babkou. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Borderland polyphony: Natalka Babina -- Glancing into the crypt: Al'herd Bakharevich -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Afterword: on cosmopolitan memory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
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