PROF Rebecca Gould rg52@soas.ac.uk
Dist Prof of Comp Poetics & Gl Politics
Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca Gould draws from previously untapped archival sources as well as from prose, poetry, and oral narratives to assess the impact of Tsarist and Soviet rule in the Islamic Caucasus. Examining literary representations of social banditry to tell the story of Russian colonialism from the vantage point of its subjects, among numerous other themes, Gould argues that the literatures of anticolonial insurgency constitute a veritable resistance—or “transgressive sanctity”—to colonialism.
Gould, R. R. (2016). Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.001.0001
Book Type | Authored Book |
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Publication Date | Sep 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Oct 10, 2023 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Series Title | Eurasia past and present |
ISBN | 9780300200645 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.001.0001 |
Keywords | Russo-Caucasian War, anticolonial insurgency, Islamic Caucasus, Russian colonialism, tsarist rule, Soviet rule, Chechnya, Daghestan, Georgia |
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