THE DUAL IMAGE OF THE FAR EAST IN VSEVOLOD IVANOV’S STORY “SHO-GUANG-GO, THE AMULET OF THE GREAT CITY”

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the dual image of the Far East in Vsevolod Ivanov’s story “Sho-Guang-Go, the Аmulet of the Great City”. The main objective of the study is to reveal the construction of the Far East as a space of colonial violence and, at the same time, a zone of Korean resistance. Based on textual and interdisciplinary approaches using postcolonial theory, the following are studied: the mechanisms of Japanese colonial control through disciplinary spatio-temporal systems and strategies of cultural resistance of Koreans. It has been established that Ivanov synthesizes historical realities with cultural exoticism. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the first detailed analysis of the story through the prism of postcolonial optics, which expands the methods of studying Ivanov’s work and enriches the understanding of the representation of the Far East in Soviet literature.