Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism by Vaingurt, Julia

Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era...
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Author: Julia Vaingurt
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Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism by Vaingurt, Julia

Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism

¥40,380

Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism

¥40,380
Author: Julia Vaingurt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature

Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of approaching literary fiction, arriving at weakness as a crucial principle of narrative and character formation. Julia Vaingurt argues that this counter-discourse of strategic weakness constituted both an aesthetic strategy and an ethical code, affording like-minded authors a feeling of recognition and commonality and uniting an international community of artists in resistance to the divisiveness of their worlds. Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism explores the cultivation of weak subjectivity through modes such as gender subversion, queer holy foolishness, intoxication, madness, and writing disorders like graphomania and writer's block. Identifying the poetics of weakness as formative for Soviet underground literature of the 1960s and '70s, Vaingurt also traces the inheritance of a far older tradition within Russian culture of salutary weakness. As democratic deliberation continues to be under threat around the world, alternatives to the ubiquitous politics of force are an aesthetic, ethical, and ideological imperative.



Author: Julia Vaingurt
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 01/15/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780810148161

About the Author

JULIA VAINGURT is a professor in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her previous books include Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s, also published by Northwestern University Press.


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