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DSEELC Literature and Culture Forum Lecture by Eliot Borenstein: “American Horror Story: Liberalism and the Russian Dystopian Imagination”

William Oxley Thompson
March 31, 2017
All Day
Hagerty Hall 406

Join the Slavic Literature and Culture Forum for a talk by Dr. Eliot Borenstain (New York University)!

Abstract:

For years now, the Russian media have portrayed liberalism and the  “political correctness” as a dystopian threat to Russian traditions and statehood. This rhetoric echoes the ideology of a new subgenre of Russian science fiction called “liberpunk.” While liberpunk itself is a marginal literary phenomenon, it has had a role in elaborating the political vocabulary that has come to prominence in the wake of the annexation of Crimea:  the straightforward rejection of tolerance itself as an alien, anti-Russian value that can cause only harm.