Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 251-270

Journal: Anzeiger für slavische Philologie

Volume number: 50

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.36208/AnzSlPh50202213

URL: https://unipub.uni-graz.at/anzeiger/periodical/titleinfo/10285739?

Publisher: Harrassowitz

Abstract: 

Sergei Dovlatov, anecdotist, alcoholic, unemployed, and eventually emigrant writer, is a prime example of self-marginalization in late Soviet society. A considerable part of the fascination for the author and his pseudo-documentary fictional alter egos stems from their contrast to multiple traditional role models of Soviet masculinities, be these martial, criminal or intellectual. While a number of memoirs are devoted to the habitus of the likeable outsider Dovlatov, a proper analysis of his family chronicle Nashi (Ours, 1983) from the point of view of gender and narratology is missing. This article argues that the sequence of 13 portraits, which zoom in on the odd gender patterns in a marginal family, reads as a bizarre panorama of contrary masculinities, as a narrative of increasing divergence from normative male role models, and as a cipher for the narrator’s alternative self-fashioning beyond the binary of hegemonic and subordinate masculinities.

Harvard Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2022) Welkende Hegemonie. Dovlatovs Männer, Anzeiger für slavische Philologie, 50, pp. 251-270. https://doi.org/10.36208/AnzSlPh50202213

APA Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2022). Welkende Hegemonie. Dovlatovs Männer. Anzeiger für slavische Philologie. 50, 251-270. https://doi.org/10.36208/AnzSlPh50202213