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.
