The national vs the global in modern Russian prose

Abstract

   The article deals with the modern artistic representation of the national aspect in Russian literature and discusses the stages of forming new approaches to the conceptualization of national meanings in the literature at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries. We consider the dependence of constructing the problem of the national in the 1990s and the 2000s on the existing mechanisms of national modeling. At the same time, the article traces the creation of a special situation, in which, in one time period, the reflection of post-colonial, national and post-Soviet problems are combined, setting the specifics of national conceptualization in Russian literature of the next decade. The article proves the inclusion of post-colonial/decolonial language into the process of national conceptualization; in some cases, it leads to the functionalization of national meanings, in others, it emphasizes new ways of national self-identification associated with estazis. In the works of this kind, we have ascertained an increase in the importance of the body code, which represents one of the sense perception options. It can be argued that the problem of constructing national meanings in modern Russian literature is associated not so much with the process of its conceptualization and restructuring, but with searches in the field of the language for describing the national aspect. In this case, post-colonial and post-Soviet discourse, as well as decoloniality, are beginning to play a key role.