Diana T. Kudaibergenova

Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature

Elites and Narratives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary study is a comprehensive survey of cultural discourse and literary production in Kazakhstan. It examines the construction of national narratives before and after Soviet rule and argues that literature has held a central role in the creation of Kazakhstan's national identity.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781498528290
• ISBN-10: 1498528295
• Artikelnr.: 45802119

Autorenporträt

Diana T. Kudaibergenova is research fellow in the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: National Survival, Alash, and Modern Kazakh Literary Debates
Chapter 2: Self-Orientalization and Re-writing the Narrative Chapter 3: The
Formation of Soviet-Kazakh Literature Canons Chapter 4: Mukhtar Auezov's
Abai Zholy and the Encyclopedia of the Kazakh Nation Chapter 5:
Nomads/Koshpendiler and the Re-Discovery of the Past: Canonizing Nomadism
Chapter 6: Mukhtar Magauin's Cultural Archaeology in Soviet and post-Soviet
Kazakhstan's National History and Literature Chapter 7: Internationalism,
Postcolonialism and Kazakh Soviet Literature in the 1960s and 1980s: Anuar
Alimzhanov, Satimzhan Sanbayev, and Murat Auezov Chapter 8: Olzhas
Suleimenov and the Un-Bounded Imagination of the Past Chapter 9: December
1986 and the National Imagination in the Post-Independent Era Chapter 10:
Timeless and Post-National: Gerold Belger's narration on Kazakhstan