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238 pages, Hardcover
First published October 4, 2023
During my student years, I became familiar with all the classics of decolonization, from Edward Said on. However, any treatment of Russia's colonial history was absent from the lectures I attended... I grew up during a time when decolonialization was a big deal and voices of otherness were being amplified. I attended gender studies lectures. Yet every lecture that dealt with otherness and the silence that accompanies it overlooked the Eastern European experience.
I identify as a postcolonial writer because I recognise my own experience best through that frame of reference and because it makes my work better understood in areas where Soviet imperialism is not well known.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river. - quote from Heraclitus (c535-c475 BCE), used as the epigraph for "Into the Same River. Putin's War Against Women" by Sofi Oksanen.