P.S. Re: the Caucasus

[Vitaly A. Chernetsky]

Dear SEELANGers,

I fully concur with Natalia Pylypiuk's drawing attention to Shevchenko's
"Kavkaz" as a key anti-colonial text written at the time of Russia's
colonization of the Caucasus. You don't have to be fluent in Ukrainian to
read it, BTW, as Shevchenko's poetry has been widely translated, including
into English (although all poetry, of course, "works" better in the
original).

Best wishes,
Vitaly Chernetsky

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Natalia Pylypiuk wrote:
> If you read Ukrainian, I suggest including among this literature
> the poem "Kavkaz" (18 November 1845), which Taras Shevchenko
> (1814-61) dedicated to his friend and fellow artist,
> Jakiv de Bal'men, who died in the Caucasus on 26 July 1845.
>
> The poem, a powerful invective and meditation on a political theme, is
> a good example of anti-colonial literature. It was published for the
> first time in Leipzig, in 1859, in a volume entitled
> *Novye stixotvorenija Pushkina i Shevchenki.*

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