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Sincerity after Communism Ellen Rutten

Sincerity after Communism By Ellen Rutten

Sincerity after Communism by Ellen Rutten

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A compelling study of new sincerity as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows

Sincerity after Communism Summary

Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History by Ellen Rutten

A compelling study of new sincerity as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows

The global cultural practice of a new sincerity in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily in the wake of the Soviet collapse. Cultural historian Ellen Rutten traces the rise and proliferation of a new rhetoric of sincere social expression characterized by complex blends of unabashed honesty, playfulness, and irony. Insightful and thought provoking, Rutten's masterful study of a sweeping cultural trend with roots in late Soviet Russia addresses postsocialist, postmodern, and postdigital questions of selfhood. The author explores how and why a uniquely Russian artistic and social philosophy was shaped by cultural memory, commodification, and mediatization, and how, under Putin, new sincerity talk merges with transnational pleas to revive sincerity. This essential study stands squarely at the intersection of the history of emotions, media studies, and post-Soviet studies to shed light on a new cultural reality-one that is profoundly affecting creative thought, artistic expression, and lifestyle virtually everywhere.

Sincerity after Communism Reviews

In her intellectually captivating and at times provocative book, Ellen Rutten analyzes a discourse on sincerity as a self-sufficient narrative, with its inner logic, recognizable signifiers, rhetorics -- in short, poetics. The fact that this daring exploration of the poetics of discourse focuses on contemporary Russian culture, placed into the context of the global debate about sincerity, makes this work especially valuable. The discourse on sincerity emerges as a counter-agent of postmodernism, yet as the reader realizes proves to be inseparable of postmodernism and develops not only in a parallel course with it but also within it. Sincerity after Communism contributes to the conceptualization of Russian and global postmodernism by presenting the discourse on sincerity as the indispensable form of postmodernism's self-critique, as its ferment of growth and the trigger for further renovations.-Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder

In post-Communist Russia the requirement of the new sincerity promised the liberation of art and literature from the ideological censorship but at the same time announced a new era of cultural marketing and rising importance of the blogosphere. In her groundbreaking book Rutten analyses this ambiguous role of new sincerity using the recent examples from Russian literature and comparing them with analogous cultural phenomena in English and American literature and theoretical writing.-Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University

An enormous amount of thought, hard work, and research went into the tracking of the phenomenon of new sincerity. The topic is an extraordinarily complex one, the work is original and brave, and the scholarship is both sound and meticulous. --Nancy Condee, Director, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

Sincerity After Communism is a major contribution to Russian studies, as well as to cultural studies more broadly.--Eliot Borenstein, New York University


In her intellectually captivating and at times provocative book, Ellen Rutten analyzes a discourse on sincerity as a self-sufficient narrative, with its inner logic, recognizable signifiers, rhetorics -- in short, poetics. The fact that this daring exploration of the poetics of discourse focuses on contemporary Russian culture, placed into the context of the global debate about sincerity, makes this work especially valuable. The discourse on sincerity emerges as a counter-agent of postmodernism, yet as the reader realizes proves to be inseparable of postmodernism and develops not only in a parallel course with it but also within it. Sincerity after Communism contributes to the conceptualization of Russian and global postmodernism by presenting the discourse on sincerity as the indispensable form of postmodernism's self-critique, as its ferment of growth and the trigger for further renovations.-Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder -- Mark Lipovetsky
In post-Communist Russia the requirement of the new sincerity promised the liberation of art and literature from the ideological censorship but at the same time announced a new era of cultural marketing and rising importance of the blogosphere. In her groundbreaking book Rutten analyses this ambiguous role of new sincerity using the recent examples from Russian literature and comparing them with analogous cultural phenomena in English and American literature and theoretical writing.-Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University -- Boris Groys
An enormous amount of thought, hard work, and research went into the tracking of the phenomenon of new sincerity. The topic is an extraordinarily complex one, the work is original and brave, and the scholarship is both sound and meticulous. --Nancy Condee, Director, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh -- Nancy Condee
Sincerity After Communism is a major contribution to Russian studies, as well as to cultural studies more broadly.--Eliot Borenstein, New York University -- Eliot Borenstein

About Ellen Rutten

Ellen Rutten is a professor of literature and chair of the Slavonic Department at the University of Amsterdam, where she researches post-Soviet and global contemporary culture, literature and art, design, social media, and memory.

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GOR011726873
9780300213980
0300213980
Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History by Ellen Rutten
Ellen Rutten
Eurasia Past and Present
Used - Like New
Hardback
Yale University Press
20170307
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