Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic

Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives

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Author(s)
Lindsay, Stuart
Language
English
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Abstract
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111715
Keywords
Chernobyl Disaster 1986; Chernobyl Gothic; Nuclear Trauma; Collective Social Trauma; Gothic Literature; Soviet Literature; Post-Soviet Culture; Exclusion Zone; Nuclear Catastrophe; Trauma Theory; Testimonial Writing; Science Fiction and Disaster; Intergenerational Trauma; Memory and Mourning; Uncanny Aesthetics; Cultural Aftermath; Virtual Reality and Memory; Video Games and Disaster; Geopolitics and Memory; Disaster Studies
ISBN
9781839990649, 9781839990649, 9781839990656, 9781839990663
Publisher
Anthem Press
Publisher website
https://www.anthempress.com/
Publication date and place
UK, 2026
Imprint
Anthem Press
Series
Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature,
Classification
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary theory
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Pages
182
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/