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Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic: Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives

by Stuart Lindsay
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781839990649
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 182
  • Original Price: GBP 80.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 418 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Gothic & Romance

This scholarly monograph examines the concept of Chernobyl trauma by situating it at the interface of clinical diagnoses of survivors' Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, their expressions of this trauma in published testimonials translated into English, and through English-language literary explorations of contemporary Soviet trauma. It establishes a new perspective on the intergenerational and international reception of the nuclear disaster, one shaped by Soviet cultural memory as well as Science Fiction and the literary aesthetics of the Gothic. The monograph analyses first-generation Chernobyl survivors' imaginative reconstruction of events through testimony in the face of the Soviet Party's attempts to sublimate the narrative of the disaster into an official account. It also discusses the ways in which a second generation represents inherited, traumatic memory through a literary diaspora of Chernobyl and Soviet-Kazakh Semipalatinsk nuclear trauma, and how English-speaking writers not personally involved in the disaster engage in its memorialisation through discourses of horror and collective mourning.

Stuart L. Lindsay is a PhD graduate and English literature lecturer at the University of Stirling. His research and publications focus on Memory and Trauma studies and Gothic studies in graphic novels, gaming, Internet sub-culture and critical nostalgia.

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