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SOVIET DEATH AND HYBRID SOVIET SUBJECTIVITY: URBAN CEMETERY AS A METATEXT

Form of presentation

Articles in international journals and collections

Year of publication

2018

Язык

английский

Authors, employees of KFU

Malysheva Svetlana Yurevna, author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Malysheva, Svetlana. Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext // Ab Imperio. 2018. N 3. P. 351-383.

Annotation

Based on analyzing visual and verbal texts on gravestones and reading the entire layout of cemeteries and funeral rituals as semiotically meaningful metatexts, this article approaches the phenomenon of Soviet subjectivity from an unusual perspective. Death as the ultimate culmination of lived experience documented Sovietness more conclusively than any “living” manifestations, which only highlights the fundamental ambiguity of the Soviet mind and society as reflected by the USSR's mortuary sphere. The author identifies and examines the dialectics of “purity” and “hybridity” within the Soviet urban cemetery space. The discourse of cultural purity persisted throughout most of the Soviet period despite the regime's halfhearted attempts at arranging distinctive ethnocultural groups into a mosaic whole. Hybridity as a product of synthesizing new common meaning and social identity from diverse cultural and social elements was mostly a grassroots phenomenon. The observable changes in cemeteria

Keywords

смерть, кладбище, советская субъективность

The name of the journal

Ab Imperio

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https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=192388&p_lang=2

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Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Malysheva Svetlana Yurevna	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2018	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Malysheva, Svetlana. Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext // Ab Imperio. 2018. N 3. P. 351-383.	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=192388&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Ab Imperio	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Based on analyzing visual and verbal texts on gravestones and reading the entire layout of cemeteries and funeral rituals as semiotically meaningful metatexts, this article approaches the phenomenon of Soviet subjectivity from an unusual perspective. Death as the ultimate culmination of lived experience documented Sovietness more conclusively than any “living” manifestations, which only highlights the fundamental ambiguity of the Soviet mind and society as reflected by the USSR's mortuary sphere. The author identifies and examines the dialectics of “purity” and “hybridity” within the Soviet urban cemetery space. The discourse of cultural purity persisted throughout most of the Soviet period despite the regime's halfhearted attempts at arranging distinctive ethnocultural groups into a mosaic whole. Hybridity as a product of synthesizing new common meaning and social identity from diverse cultural and social elements was mostly a grassroots phenomenon. The observable changes in cemeteria	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject	смерть	ru_RU
dc.subject	кладбище	ru_RU
dc.subject	советская субъективность	ru_RU
dc.title	Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in international journals and collections	ru_RU