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- catalog abstract "Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.".
- catalog contributor b11966066.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-323) and index.".
- catalog description "Soviet labor camps: a brief history -- The literary corpus -- Gulag memoirs as a genre -- The Gulag Archipelago -- From factography to fictionalization -- Varlam Shalamov -- The Gulag fiction of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- In the wake of testimony.".
- catalog extent "xv, 333 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Return from the Archipelago.".
- catalog identifier "0253337879 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Return from the Archipelago.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Return from the Archipelago.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "891.709/355 21".
- catalog subject "Concentration camp inmates Soviet Union Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Concentration camps Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Concentration camps in literature.".
- catalog subject "PG3026.C64 T648 2000".
- catalog subject "Prisoners Soviet Union Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Prisoners' writings, Soviet History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Russian literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Soviet labor camps: a brief history -- The literary corpus -- Gulag memoirs as a genre -- The Gulag Archipelago -- From factography to fictionalization -- Varlam Shalamov -- The Gulag fiction of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- In the wake of testimony.".
- catalog title "Return from the Archipelago : narratives of Gulag survivors / Leona Toker.".
- catalog type "text".