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...Olga V. Solovieva This essay discusses Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl as a complicated figuration of the Russian and Soviet literary traditions. A comparison is drawn with the Japanese documentary Little Voices from Fukushima (2015) by the antinuclear activist Hitomi Kamanaka...

... comes to us in at least two different forms. Reflecting in the London Review of Books in 1987, a physicist (Patterson 1987 ) tries to imagine a Big Chernobyl novel—a hypothetical text; a book he's never read—and concludes that it may not be writable: the dramatis personae would be too long. How...

..., and they determine meaning, not vice versa. Many of these processes are evident in Solovieva's essay, “Voicing the Nuclear, Resisting the State in Kamanaka Hitomi's Fukushima and Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl” (chapter 13). Initially I was surprised by an essay on nuclear disasters; it didn't fit in my notion...

... Press, 1997); Jean Comaroff and L. Comaroff, “Naturing the Nation: Aliens, Apocalypse and the Postcolonial State,” Journal of Southern African Studies 27, no. 3 (2001): 627–51; and Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002...

... claim, that Western intelligence agencies were developing new respiratory viruses in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to be sent into Russia on the bodies of migratory birds (Frenkel and Thompson 2022 ), demonstrates the extent to which scientific evidence of interspecies disease vectors, triggered...