TY - JOUR TI - Between “Internal” and “External” Colonization. Vera Galaktionova’s Novel Sorrow Sleepers AU - Wawrzyńczak, Aleksander TI - Between “Internal” and “External” Colonization. Vera Galaktionova’s Novel Sorrow Sleepers AB - Postcolonial discourse in modern Russian literature is conditioned by the peculiarity of Russian colonization, which was most interestingly characterized by Alexander Etkind in his conception of “internal” and “external” colonization. This conception became the basis of the analyses of the novel Sorrow Sleepers by Vera Galaktionova presented in this article. The action of the novel takes place in a small village in Northern Kazakhstan, inhabited basically by Russians. The perception of the novel based on the conception of “internal” and “external” colonization allows to explicate the connection between the postcolonial trauma and the moral and religious crisis, which hits not only the Russian minority in former Soviet republics, but the Russians in Russia as well. VL - 2021 IS - Volume 16, Issue 4 PY - 2021 SN - 1897-3035 C1 - 2084-3933 SP - 305 EP - 318 DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.21.021.14370 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/mezhdu-vnutrennei-i-vneshnei-kolonizatsiei-roman-very-galaktionovoi-spiashchie-ot-pechali KW - postcolonialism KW - modern Russian prose KW - Vera Galaktionova KW - Kazakhstan KW - Russian KW - trauma