LEADER 04379nam 2200649 450 001 9910456374903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8966-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442689664 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019415 035 $a(OCoLC)635461386 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382316 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000479004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11328224 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000479004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10440418 035 $a(PQKB)11273540 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430888 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268527 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672715 035 $a(DE-B1597)465372 035 $a(OCoLC)1013942029 035 $a(OCoLC)944176493 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442689664 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258370 035 $a(OCoLC)958565645 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019415 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting at Russia's border /$fKatya Hokanson 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 311 $a0-8020-9306-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Pushkin, 'The Captive of the Caucasus,' and Russia's Entry into History -- $t2. The Poetry of Empire: 'The Fountain of Bakhchisarai' and 'The Gypsies' -- $t3. Centring the Periphery: Eugene Onegin, 'Onegin's Journey,' and 'A Journey to Arzrum' -- $t4. The Future of Russia in the Mirror of the Caspian: Hybridity and Narodnost' in Ammalat-bek and A Hero of Our Time -- $t5. Tolstoy on the Margins -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix: Aleksandr Pushkin's 'The Captive of the Caucasus' - A Translation -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIt is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country?s metropolitan centres. Given Russia?s long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain distillation of peripheral experiences and ideas that contributes just as much to theories of national culture as do urban-centred perspectives. Writing at Russia?s Border argues that Russian literature needs to be reexamined in light of the fact that many of its most important nineteenth-century texts are peripheral, not in significance but in provenance.Katya Hokanson makes the case that the fluid and ever-changing cultural and linguistic boundaries of Russia?s border regions profoundly influenced the nation?s literature, posing challenges to stereotypical or territorially based conceptions of Russia?s imperial, military, and cultural identity. A highly canonical text such as Pushkin?s Eugene Onegin (1831), which is set in European Russia, is no less dependent on the perspectives of those living at the edges of the Russian Empire than is Tolstoy?s The Cossacks (1863), which is explicitly set on Russia?s border and has become central to the Russian canon. Hokanson cites the influence of these and other ?peripheral? texts as proof that Russia?s national identity was dependent upon the experiences of people living in the border areas of an expanding empire. Produced at a cultural moment of contrast and exchange, the literature of the periphery represented a negotiation of different views of Russian identity, an ingredient that was ultimately essential even to literature produced in the major cities.Writing at Russia?s Border upends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature. 606 $aRussian literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, Russian, in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Russian, in literature. 676 $a891.709/003 700 $aHokanson$b Katya$0887786 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456374903321 996 $aWriting at Russia's border$91983111 997 $aUNINA