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Polina Barskova

Associate Professor of Russian literature, Hampshire College. Scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film, and the aestheticization of historical trauma. Current project: “The Ruin Screams: Poetics of the Spatial Representation During the Siege of Leningrad.”

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Articles by Polina Barskova

  1. Gone Missing Books and their owners in the siege of Leningrad

    The book lovers, collectors, and dealers of the siege were moving antiquarian books on strollers and sleds, as they had done with dead bodies several months earlier, thus reorganizing the devastated spaces of the changed city. From the “vacant” apartments of missing people, books that materially represented material and symbolic values of the past were running through — and up against — a new reality, a contact or collision that engendered new forms of inquiry and of collaboration between past and present

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