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Postcolonial identities in Central Asian and Caucasian literature / Tamar Koplatadze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koplatadze, Tamar, author.
- Series:
- Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caucasian literature--History and criticism.
- Caucasian literature.
- Central Asian literature--History and criticism.
- Central Asian literature.
- Post-communism--Asia, Central.
- Post-communism.
- Post-communism--Caucasus.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Russian literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Russian literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Decoloniality has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of public and academic debates of our time, bringing to the fore the postcolonial perspectives of previously underrepresented groups. Interest is similarly growing around the cultures of the Caucasus and Central Asia which have been part of the Russian and Soviet Empires. It is at this point that this monograph intervenes as the first major study to examine post-Soviet literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia and to employ postcolonial theory as its methodology. Authors from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are placed in dialogue with each other to establish how they respond to the post-Soviet transition and negotiate their identities in their fiction. These include Narine Abgaryan, Hamid Ismailov, Nana Ekvtimishvili, Mariam Petrosyan, Bibish, Lilya Kalaus, the SHTAB collective, and others. Building and expanding on the theoretical tools of postcolonial and decolonial studies, my enquiry covers four core topics: trauma, immigration, NGOs, and utopias. I argue that postcolonial theory is crucial for understanding the current cultural developments in the Caucasus and Central Asia, whose literatures are in many respects postcolonial on the level of the writers’ identity configurations and modes of representation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198974062
- 019897406X
- OCLC:
- 1517389918
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000304038
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