Inhabitants of Russian rural areas in the context of challenges of post-Soviet reality in Irina Mamayeva’s works Cover Image

Mieszkańcy rosyjskiej wsi wobec wyzwań postsowieckiej rzeczywistości w twórczości Iriny Mamajewej
Inhabitants of Russian rural areas in the context of challenges of post-Soviet reality in Irina Mamayeva’s works

Author(s): Liliana Kalita
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: contemporary rural prose; social and political changes; system transformation; Russia after perestroika

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses Irina Mamayeva's short stories and tales that show the life in Russian rural areas during a dozen or so years following perestroika, and point out its influence on both individual life and that of a village community as a group. The picture of the rural areas in the 1990s and at the beginning of the 21st century is pessimistic, filled with images of dilapidating houses, companies being shut down, lack of transport connections. This material destruction is accompanied by the spiritual degradation of the inhabitants: poverty, unemployment, mutual aggression and the feeling of being abandoned by the previous system.

  • Issue Year: 44/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 189-200
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish