After the Seraph: The Nonhuman in Twenty-First Century Russian Literature
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2019

This dissertation looks at works from the 2000s and 2010s by three Russian authors: Maria Stepanova, Fyodor Svarovsky, and Linor Goralik. The work of these three authors often stages encounters and transformations between human and nonhuman beings––animals, robots, supernatural creatures¬¬––whose presence in the text leads both to an examination of the uses of language and a deep consideration of how the social body can include otherness. The main inquiry of this dissertation is how the nonhuman