The Future in the Margin: The National and the International in the Russian Émigré Poetry from the Far East
Keywords:
Russian literature, diaspora, emigrant poetry, national identity, Judaism, cosmopolitanism, Matveev, Nikolaj, Mart, Venedikt, Elagin, IvanAbstract
This paper investigates the interplay of nationalism and internationalism in three generations of Russian émigré poets from the Far East: Nikolai Matveev, Venedikt Mart, and Ivan Elagin who, in contrast to the cosmopolitanism of his forefathers, emphasises nostalgia for Russia, considering the Russian language as paternal heritage and deleting his Jewish descent.References
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