THE MAGIC SPELL OF REVANCHISM: GEOPOLITICAL VISIONS IN POST- SOVIET SPECULATIVE FICTION (FANTASTIKA)
Journal Title: Идеология и политика (рус) / Ідеологія і політика (укр) / Ideology and Politics (Eng) - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
The various genres of speculative fiction elaborate models for aesthetic “re-enchantment” of the world, in which the role of programmatically irrational and fantastic elements ranges from the uncanny menace to the aesthetic ideal. While in the Western fiction the literary tropes of time travel, monsters or sorcery function as the elements of the unreal “secondary world” and thus construct a distance between the fantastic and the mundane, contemporary Russophone authors exploit the generic conventions of fantasy or science fiction in order to suggest a continuity between fiction and reality. Focusing on geopolitical and social modeling in post-Soviet speculative fiction, the paper claims that the images of the Other, the archaic communal structures and the transformations of historical time provide here an aesthetic ground for a large patriotic consensus of a community united by common resentment.
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Oleksandr Zabirko
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