Authors
Miriam Finkelstein1; 1 University of Vienna, Austria Discussion
The paper will focus on the impact of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on global Russophone literatures since 2014. In particular, it is the Russian language and the imperial and colonial legacies it transports that Russophone poets in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Uzbekistan, but also in Russia itself seek to deconstruct. Addressing different publication strategies and literary devices such as multilingualism, it will be argued that the ultimate goal Xamdam Zakirov (Uzbekistan/Finland), Nijat Mamedov (Azerbaijan), the poets of the Oribta group (Latvia) as well many others pursue is the dissociation of the language from the Russian state and the creation of different and identifiably local poetic Russian languages. 
