TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koplatadze,Tamar
TI  - Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature
T2  - Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
SN  - 9780198974079
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Zentralasien
KW  - Kaukasus
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Conventions -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1: Theorizing Russian Postcolonial Studies -- Introduction -- Russian Postcolonial Theory: Empire, Orientalism, and Self-Colonization -- The Soviet Union: A Colonial Empire? -- The Caucasus and Central Asia under the Soviet Empire -- Druzhba Narodov and the Formation of Russophone Elites -- (Post-)Soviet Orientalism and Migrant Narratives -- Post-Soviet Nation-building, Myth-making, and Censorship -- Conclusion -- 2: Between 'Post-Soviet' and 'Postcolonial' -- Introduction -- The Post-Soviet and Postcolonial as Literary and Theoretical Categories -- The Novel -- Language -- Readership -- Conclusion -- 3: Unhomely Identities: The Traumatic Search for a Post-Soviet Home -- Introduction -- Literature, the Uncanny, and the Unhomely -- Theorizing the Post-Soviet Unhomely -- Mariam Petrosyan, The House in Which (2009) -- Nana Ekvtimishvili, The Pear Field (2015) -- Teona Dolenjashvili, Memphis (2008) -- Olga Breininger, There Was No Adderall in The Soviet Union (2018) -- Conclusion -- 4: Navigating the Russian Literary Market as a Russophone Trickster Writer -- Introduction -- Postcolonial Tricksterism -- Theorizing Russophone Tricksterism -- Bibish, The Dancer from Khiva (2004) -- Narine Abgaryan, Понаехавшая (Foreigner) (2011) -- Conclusion -- 5: NGOs and Neocolonialism in Russophone Women's Writing -- Introduction -- Post-Soviet NGOs between Soviet and Western Neocolonialism -- Achille Mbembe's Neocolonial 'Mockery from Within' -- Lilya Kalaus, The Fund of Last Hope: A Postcolonial Novel (2013) -- Eleonora Kasymova, Tajik (2007) -- Rena Yuzbashi, From Vorobyshek with Love (2007) -- Conclusion; 6: Beyond Identity: Cyborgs, Queers, and Other Posthumans of Sci-Fi Utopias -- Introduction -- SHTAB -- Совсем Другие (Altogether Others) (2018) -- Postcolonial Posthumanism -- Syinat Sultanalieva, 'Element 174' (2018) -- Hagra, Graphic Story, Untitled (2018) -- Zhanar Sekerbayeva, 'Chimeras of City Z' (2018) -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
N2  - A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining how post-Soviet authors have responded to the post-Soviet transition, and arguing that their works are in many respects postcolonial in terms of the writers' identity configurations and literary modes of representation
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