Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300200645)

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.

Author: Rebecca Gould
ISBN-10: 0300200641
ISBN-13: 9780300200645
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2016
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2017