{"title":"Professor Polly Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Polly Jones offers a compelling exploration of historical and literary landscapes, with a particular focus on Soviet-era narratives and the cultural significance of Gulag fiction. Her works provide insightful analysis that bridges literature and history, making complex themes accessible to both scholars and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e category, her books serve as valuable resources for those interested in understanding the intersection of political history and literary expression. Expect thoughtful interpretations that enrich your knowledge of 20th-century literature and its broader social contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gulag-fiction-by-professor-polly-jones-9781350250383","title":"Gulag Fiction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As \u003cem\u003eGulag Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596507332844,"sku":"9781350250383","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3444959db40efc2a917ae31318934143.jpg?v=1777941655"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/professor-polly-jones.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}