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020			_a9780299317607 (cloth : alk. paper)
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040			_aMEMOS _beng _cMEMOS _erda _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aPG2987.N27 _bP37 2018
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100	1		_aParts, Lyudmila, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIn search of the true Russia : _bthe provinces in contemporary nationalist discourse / _cLyudmila Parts.
260			_aLondon : _bThe University of Wisconsin Press, _c2018
264		4	_c©2018
300			_axiii, 200 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis book examines the provincial theme in post-Soviet literature, film, and journalism as a cultural representation of Russian nationalism. Its focus is on "the provinces" of cultural myth: the imagined domain of authentic Russianness, and collective contemplation of the recurring questions concerning Russia's past and future, what it means to be "Russian," and where "true" Russians reside. Cultural production today locates true Russianness outside the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow. In mass culture, the traditional privileging of the center, over the backward provinces, yields to a view of the provinces as the repository of national tradition and moral strength. Conversely, high literature and art-house cinema provide an alternative, harshly critical image of the provinces. Differing perspectives notwithstanding, both are negotiating a particular concept of Russianness, in which the provinces play a central role and, ultimately, function to both redirect nationalist discourse away from the deeply unsatisfying model of Russia versus the West, and put forth a hermetic national identity, based on the opposition of "us versus us," rather than "us versus them."
650		0	_aRussian literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
906			_a2022-844 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
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