2020
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Laure Thibonnier, « «The Great Patriotic War in modern Russian Children's Literature: looking for an alternative» », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10.31860/2304-5817-2020-1-17-144-166
In modern Russia, the Great Patriotic War remains an important elementof official memorial policy and collective memory, mainly in the form of aheroic mythological narrative. But this heroic myth makes it difficult, andsometimes taboo, to express painful war experience. This article examineshow the taboo traumatic experience (“alternative narrative”) is embodied incontemporary Russian literature for children and adolescents. This ques-tion is investigated on the basis of the reference to the texts of the novels“Cloud Regiment” (Oblachnyy polk) by E. Verkin (2012), “Traces” (Sledy)by E. Basova (2017) and “The t. g. Garden” (Sad imeni t. s.) by M. Boteva(2018). The author of the article considers these texts in the context ofmodern publishing repertoire of children’s literature, finds out what ideasabout the Great Patriotic War the reader can get from these works and whatartistic means this representation is formed with. Then, relying on severalsamples of the reader’s reception of selected works, the author makes someconclusions about the meaning of these examples of alternative narrativeabout the Great Patriotic War today. These books provide an example ofhow reading allows the reader to become a witness of the described events,thus illustrating the relationship between cultural memory and poetics.