Současná srbská a česká slavistická bádání II. Příspěvky z Kolokvia Brno–Bělehrad 2024
KapitolaThe Theory of Genre Worlds in Case of Russian Popular Fiction
Rok vydání: 2025https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0684-2024-18
Abstrakt
In contemporary Russian literature, there is a specific type of genre literature about so-called “podadants”, which is the Russian word for heroes and heroines traveling to other worlds and other times. In addition to this basic motif, this is literature published in mass quantities, usually within special genre editions, which also uses elements of other fantastic genres. One of its branches, working with alternative history, often has a very nationalistic or revanchist subtext. Overall, the “podadants” genre is a complex literary and social phenomenon that cannot be grasped from just one side. One way to examine it is to take help from a publication that deals with similar phenomena, albeit in a completely different context. The authors of Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture propose the concept of “genre worlds” (as sets of people and practices that operate according to established and emerging patterns of collaboration to produce texts that make popular genres recognizable) and use them to research contemporary fantasy, romance, and detective novels. Their methods, although applied to the English-language sphere of literature, can also be helpful in researching the specifics of the genre, which is inherently typical of the Russian environment.
Klíčová slova
genre literature, contemporary fantasy, Russian literature, "popadantsy"
Reference
Literatura
Kim, Wilkins – Driscoll, Beth – Fletcher Lisa: Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture. University of Massachusetts Press 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2n4w5hm
Becker, Howard Saul: Art worlds. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press, 2008.
Galina, Maria: Resentiment and Post-traumatic Syndrome in Russian Post-Soviet Speculative Fiction: Two Trends. In: Mikhail Suslov (ed.): The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia: Language, Fiction and Fantasy in Modern Russia. London 2021, s. 13. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781788317078.ch-002
Кулбака, Николай: Чего хотят попаданцы, или Парадоксы исторической памяти. N + 1. 14. 10 2022, https://nplus1.ru/blog/2022/10/14/ti-popal-popadanets, access 25. 11 .2024.