マーミン＝シビリャークの自然観についての考察──帝政ロシアの自然支配観への文学的抵抗
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the representation of nature in the works of Mamin-Sibiryak, who depicted the landscapes and communities of the Urals amid rapid industrialisation and the reckless exploitation of natural resources in nineteenth-century imperial Russia. During this period, uncontrolled deforestation and large-scale natural transformations in settler zones caused severe environmental degradation and placed heavy burdens on socially vulnerable groups, including peasants and ethnic minorities. Against this backdrop, Mamin-Sibiryak articulates a literary vision of a multispecies world in which humans and non-humans interact reciprocally. The Fighters (Boitsy) portrays the structural conditions through which large-scale deforestation produces hardship for barge haulers, while hunting tales such as Emelya the Hunter (Emelya-okhotnik), Bogach and Yeryomka (Bogach i Yeryomka), and Yashka the Free Man (Vol’nyi chelovek Yashka) explore hunters’ natural worlds, grounded in symmetry and mutuality with animals. Furthermore, in The Forest (Les) and The Green Mountains (Zelyonye gory), the discourse on Orthodox lay monks offers a critical perspective on modern attitudes that exploit natural resources for human desire. Taken together, these analyses show that Mamin-Sibiryak’s works can be understood as a form of literary resistance to imperial conceptions of the domination of nature, which has significant implications for contemporary ecocritical studies.
DOI: 10.15026/0002001623
Author: AOUDA, Anna
Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7154993965