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Alien visions : the Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American literature

Title: Alien visions : the Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American literature / Margaret Ziolkowski.
Author: Ziolkowski, Margaret, 1952-
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005], ©2005.

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239 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The major focus of this study is representation rather than reality - not the actual similarities and differences between the historical experiences and worldviews of the Chechens and Navajos, but the perceptions and portrayal of the Chechens by Russians and Navajos by white Americans. The analysis of these subjective realms, as they are expressed in a wide range of literary works, requires attentiveness to all the conscious and unconscious strategies of stereotyping."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Russian orientalism : inventing the evil Chechen -- 3. Sympathy for the devil : Anatolii Pristavkin and the Chechen deportation -- 4. Popular and unpopular enemies : the Russo-Chechen conflict in contemporary Russian literature -- 5. Reservation blues : education and alienation among the Navajos -- 6. Remembering Bosque Redondo : the Navajo deportation in twentieth-century literature -- 7. Solving crimes in Navajoland : the medicine man and his alter egos.

ISBN

0874139260 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005008234

OCLC

OCM58789019
SCSB-5215825

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Columbia University Libraries