Can the Post-Soviet Subaltern Speak? Silence, Women Emancipation and Postcolonial Discourse in Guzel Iakhina's Zuleikha Otkryvaet Glaza
Journal: UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona)
Year: 2020

In 2015 the first book of a young Tatar writer Guzel' Iakhina Zuleikha otkryvaet glaza received two main Russian literary awards: “Bol'shaia kniga” and “Iasnaia poliana.” Her novel depicts the process of dekulakization, mass deportations and life in a labor camp under Stalin. Success of the book was not limited to Russia as it was translated into eighteen languages. Through the analysis of the subalterns in the novel, I am aiming to deconstruct contemporary Russian (neo)orientalism to argue that