In her book in progress, Professor Irina Kogan discusses the emergence of a new trend in German-language literature by authors with a Soviet or post-Soviet background. Younger authors from this group have been compelled to examine their post-Soviet legacy in response to Russia's neo-imperial politics and especially its full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. This project of introspective self-discovery through critical retrospection represents a shift from the instrumentalized exoticization of Russianness for an unquestioned German readership, which was prevalent in post-Soviet authorship in Germany since its inception around 2000.

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Presented by Irina Kogan, assistant professor, Department of German