@misc{113766, author = {Serguei Alex. Oushakine}, title = {Neighbours in Memory: a book review of Svetlana Alexievich{\textquoteright}s "Second-Hand Time" (trans. by Bela Shayevich) and "Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future" (trans. by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait)}, abstract = { These voices of utopia, inseparable from the experience of dislocation, are a unique contribution to the literature of testimony. With her cycle Svetlana Alexievich has established herself as the first major postcolonial author of post-Communism: the daughter of a Ukrainian and Belarusian who uses the Russian language {\textendash} the only language in which she is completely fluent {\textendash} to collect and present, from her own subaltern perspective, subaltern accounts of the traumas inflicted by empire. }, year = {2016}, journal = {The Times Literary Supplement}, volume = {2016}, pages = {10-12}, url = {http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/neighbours-in-memory/}, language = {eng}, }