Extractivism as rebordering: Dmitrii Savochkin's Mark Sheider, Russo-Ukrainian mining literature, and the fragmentation of post-Soviet Ukraine. Issue 3 (4th March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rogatchevski, Andrei
• Is Part Of: Textual practice. Volume 35:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 467
• Page End: 484
• Publication Date: 2021-03-04
• Subjects: Extractivism -- rebordering -- coal mining in the former USSR -- commodity fiction -- FASP (fiction à substrat professionnel) -- mining fiction -- mining non-fiction; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals; Semiotics -- Periodicals; 801.95
• DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1886709
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-236X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay examines the Russian-language novel Mark Sheider (2009) by the Ukrainian author Dmitrii Savochkin in the context of the classical American and European (Émile Zola, Upton Sinclair, George Orwell), as well as Russo-Ukrainian (Aleksandr Kuprin, Larisa Reisner, Vasilii Grossman, Boris Gorbatov, Fridrikh Gorenshtein) writing about mining. It identifies some topoi common to mining fiction and non-fiction. It also considers the Russo-Ukrainian versions of such topoi, with a special focus on extractivism represented as a form of rebordering. Wolfgang Iser's concept of fictional representation provides the article with the principal theoretical framework for the analysis.