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This study explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to interpret these works for both the specialist and the general reader.
It is human nature to want to fit in. The lengths people have gone to do so have provided creative minds with material for centuries. This book explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to illuminate what prompted Christof Ruhl, an economist at the World Bank, to comment, about Russia, “On a very broad scale, it’s a country where people care about their family and friends. Their clan. But not their society.”
“This rich book examines one of the defining characteristics of Russian culture: its tendency to categorize people into those who belong and those who do not, as expressed in the well-known opposition ''svoi/chuzhoi'' (typically translated as ''one’s own'' vs. ''alien''). Drawing on sociological, semiotic, and linguistic research, as well as literary texts and memoir literature, Don’t Be a Stranger places this opposition in a variety of social and literary contexts, from Moscow nobility culture of the early nineteenth century to the troubled world of Dostoevsky’s The Demons and to divisive
political rhetoric in contemporary Russia. Ultimately, this study offers a fresh and nuanced discussion of ''svoi/chuzhoi'' as not merely a linguistic or even a cultural binary, but primarily as a symptom of anxiety in the face of a shifting social order, a tool of cultural cohesion but also an indicator of social change.”
—Valeria Sobol, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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