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First book-length work focusing on Russian-language literature on the Chechen wars. First book-length work incorporating trauma studies and the ""literature of trauma"" in contemporary Russian literature. Combines literary analysis with teaching suggestions for both language and literature classes. Includes interviews with all the authors and/or their translators. Provides provocative discussion points vis--vis trauma, nationalism, and wars of national self-determination.

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“Elena Pedigo Clark’s Trauma and Truth is a welcome contribution to critical pedagogy in Russian literary and cultural studies… Trauma and Truth offers readers both critical insight into the contemporary literature and journalistic writing that emerged from the modern wars in Chechnya, as well as an embedded, carefully crafted model course on literature and the trauma of war. There is a deep symbiosis between these two constituent parts that resist hierarchy: Is it a volume of teaching-informed scholarship, or an example of researched-informed pedagogy? It is both… The volume’s empathetic approach to the “War is Hell” message of all four authors can and should be included in almost any course on contemporary Russian literature and culture designed for the current generation of students.” — Thomas Jesús Garza, The Russian Review

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Elena Pedigo Clark received a BA in International Studies from UNC-Charlotte, an MA in Russian Translation from Columbia University, and a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently Assistant Professor of Russian at Wake Forest University.

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