Russian/East/Central European postcolonial literature

[Furman, Yelena]

Dear all, 
I am posting this to the list upon Klawa Thresher' s request.  The comments are those of the individuals who sent me their recommendations.  Enjoy!
Best, Lena
 

1. Almost anything by Chingiz Aitmatov.  Iskander, especially Sandro iz Chegema, has a lot to offer, too.  Timur Pulatov, Olzhas Suleimenov, Hrant Matevosyan, Fazu Alieva, Otar Ioselani, Yuri Rykhteu, and Timur Zulfikarov are all worth reading, as well, but they are harder to find in translation (although there are things out there).  Old issues of the journal Soviet Literature - it is a gold mine.  It has translations, not just from Russian, but from other languages as well.

 

2. You may use Andrei Volos' "Hurramabad" (English version is published by Glas), a chapter from Oksana Zabuzhko's "Filed Work in Ukrainian Sex"
(http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/print/2001/53-zabuzhko.html <https://mail.humanities.ucla.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/print/2001/53-zabuzhko.html> ) and of course Milan Kundera's numerous writings on Central Europe including his recent "Die Weltliteratur" ("The New Yorker", January 8, 2007).  Everything pertaining North Caucuses is valuable too: some of texts on this subject may be found in the recent Glas collection "War and Peace" (Arkadii Babchenko, Julia Latynina, and the fragment from Dmitri Bykov's novel "ZhD" under the title "Jewhad"). Makanin's "The Prisoner of the Caucuses" is included into the collection of his works "The Loss" (Northwestern UP) translated by Byron Lyndsey - although it's more a post-imperial rather than a post-colonial text.

 

3. Hamid Ismailov, THE RAILWAY, a novel set in Central Asia.  The time span is from around 1900 to 1980.   It is published by Harvill Secker (an imprint of Random House) and will be republished by Vintage this July.  US distribution may not be that great but it is certainly available from amazon.com 

 

4. Yuri Andrukhovych's "Recreations" (Northwestern UP) and anything else of that writer (Ukrainian)

 

5. Mamdali Makhmudov, 'Ulug' Tog'lar' (The famous moutains"), the only anticolonial work I know of Central-Asian origin about Russia's colonization of Central East (sredny vostok as it was called in Soviet times) 

 

Critical literature:

David Chioni Moore's article "Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet? Towards a Global Postcolonial Critique." 

 

Condee, Nancy.  "The Anti-Imperialist Empire and After: In Dialogue with Gayatri Spivak's 'Are You Postcolonial?'"  PMLA 120:4 (October 2006): 829-31.  Introduction by Gayatri Spivak. 


---.  "Eurasia and Imperialism."  Debate (participants include Gayatri Spivak and Harsha Ram).  PMLA 122:1 (January 2007): 360-61.


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From: Klawa Thresher [mailto:kthresher at rmwc.edu]
Sent: Tue 6/5/2007 11:39 AM
To: Furman, Yelena
Subject: RE: [SEELANGS] Russian/East/Central European postcolonial literature



Hi Lena - could you share your list with the listserve?  Thank, Klawa

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Dear all,
A huge thank you to everyone who answered my query.  I now have a very
interesting list of titles/authors, not only for the person who asked me
but for my own education, as well.  Many thanks again.
All best, Lena

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