| Description |
1 online resource (259 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures |
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Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Note on Transliteration and Translations; 1 National Survival, Alash, and Modern Kazakh Literary Debates; 2 Self-Orientalization and Rewriting of the Narrative; 3 The Formation of Soviet Kazakh Literary Canon; 4 Mukhtar Auezov's Abai Zholy and the Encyclopedia of the Kazakh Nation; 5 Koshpendiler and the Re-Discovery of the Past; 6 Magauin's Cultural Archaeology in Kazakhstan's National History and Literature; 7 Internationalism, Post-Colonialism, and Kazakh Soviet Literature in the 1960s and 1980s |
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8 Olzhas Suleimenov and the Un-Bounded Imagination of the Past9 The December 1986 Events and the National Imagination in the Post-Independence Era; 10 Timeless and Post-National; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kazakh literature -- History and criticism
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Kazakh literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781498528306 |
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1498528309 |
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