Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing

Marja Sorvari is Associate Professor of Russian Language and Culture at the University of Eastern Finland. She specializes in contemporary Russian literature and gender studies. She is author of About the Self and the Time: On Autobiographical Texts by Maria Arbatova, Elena Bonner, Ėmma Gerštejn, Tamara Petkevič and Maija Pliseckaja (2004) and has co-edited several volumes.

• 1 Introduction: Towards a Poetics of Displacement and Postmemory.- 2 Lived Religion, Displacement and Gender in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Daniel Stein, Interpreter.- 3 Remembering Childhood and Reassessing the Past in Elena Chizhova’s The Time of Women.- 4 Voices of the Lost Experiences in Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. The Last of the Soviets.- 5 In Search of Memory in Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory.- 6 Conclusion: From Poetics to Politics of Displacement and Postmemory.