ECU Russian Studies Lecture Series Hosts Dr. Marijeta Bozovic

Published Apr 07, 2017 by
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ECU Russian Studies Lecture Series Thursday April 6th / Friday April 7th, 2017 6:00 pm, Faulkner Gallery (2nd Floor, Joyner Library) Dr. Marijeta Bozovic Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Yale University "Voices from the Post-Soviet World: Svetlana Alexievich and the Politics of Prose" Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian and Belarussian descent. Her most well known works include Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (2013), Voices of Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997), and War’s Unwomanly Face (1985). Her writing, often described as “documentary prose,” captures the voices and human histories of dramatic events in the Soviet and Post-Soviet world. The Nobel Committee praised Alexievich’s work as “a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Her 2013 book Secondhand Time, which the lecture will focus on, explores the difficult transition of former Soviet citizens, capturing their complex and contradictory attitudes to the Soviet past and post-Soviet global capitalism. The lecture will provide insight not only into the work of this important writer and the post-Soviet zeitgeist, but also into challenges of postmodernity and globalization writ large. A reading and discussion group will be held in advance of the lecture with Dr. Justin Wilmes. Dr. Marijeta Bozovic is a celebrated scholar in 20th - and 21st -century Russian and East European literatures and cultures and co-editor of the journal Russian Literature. She is author of the 2016 monograph Nabokov’s Canon, and editor of the 2016 collection Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River and the forthcoming book Nabokov Upside Down.