The book explores the dynamic intersections between trauma, gender and ecology issues within contemporary Slavic literatures. Through close readings of prose, poetry, and hybrid literary forms, the volume investigates how narratives from Russia, Poland and Croatia engage with the legacies of violence, displacement and ecological degradation. The book explores the dynamic intersections between trauma, gender and ecology issues within contemporary Slavic literatures, offering a critical lens through which cultural upheavals of post-communist spaces are examined. Through close readings of prose, poetry, and hybrid literary forms, the volume investigates how narratives from Russia, Poland and Croatia engage with the legacies of violence, displacement and ecological degradation. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from trauma studies, gender theory, and ecocriticism, the book highlights how authors reimagine identity, memory, and human-nature relationships in response to ongoing socio-political crises and environmental changes. By foregrounding marginalized voices and experimental narrative strategies, this study reveals literature's transformative potential to engage with both personal and collective wounds, while challenging dominant historical and ecological discourses.
Humanity, Non-Humanity, Monstrosity. An Eco-critical Reading of Andrzej Sapkowski's Imaginary World
Alessandro Amenta
Chronobyl's Leaves and Flowers. The Botanical Trauma of Non-Human Witnesses
Nadia Caprioglio
Ecology, Trauma and Corporeity in the Works by Malgorzata Lebda
Marina Ciccarini
Conflict and Reconciliation: The Relationship Between Men and Nature in Bliskie kraje by Julia Fiedorczuk
Noemi Fregara
Logos and Revolution: The Search for a Living Language in the Ruins (The Case of Nadezha Murav'eva's Odigitriia)
Eleonora Gallucci Imposti
The Poisoned Legacy of the Soviet Past: Landscapes in Ol'ga Slavnikova's Fiction
Gabriella Elina
Myth and the Sacredness of Nature. Notes on the Prose of Alisa Ganieva
Irina Marchesini
The Trauma of the Yugoslav Dissolution in Works of Ivana Bodrozic and Elvira Mujcic
Neira Mercep
Fantasy, Women's Detective Story and Alternate History Time-Travel as a Literary Reponse to Post-Soviet Trauma
Dmitry Novokhatskiy
Memory and Narration in Kapustin Iar by Svetlana Vasilenko: Exploring a Hermeneutics of Existence in Contemporary Russian Literature
Gloria Politi
Dystopia and Utopia as Expressions of the New Dissent: The Case of Post by Dmitrii Glukhovskii, the "Inoagent" (Foreign Agent)
Donatella Possamai
The Role of Personal Memory and Collective Trauma in the Unity and Fragmentation of the Self: An Analysis of Guzel' Iakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
Iryna Shylnikova
Alessandro Amenta is Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature at Tor Vergata University of Rome.
Marina Ciccarini is Full Professor of Polish Language and Literature at Tor Vergata University of Rome.
Bianca Sulpasso is Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Tor Vergata University of Rome.
