Formalists against imperialism : the Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian orientalism /

"In January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian formalist writer Yuri Tyni...

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Author / Creator: Aydinyan, Anna (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
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Summary:"In January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian formalist writer Yuri Tynianov wrote a historical novel about the event entitled The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar. In this wide-ranging study, Anna Aydinyan posits that The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar conceptualizes Orientalism fifty years before Edward Said coined the term for American academia. She argues that Tynianov parodied historical works on the Caucasus in his novel in order to critique the ways in which exoticizing the East enabled imperialism and colonization. Analysing literary and non-literary texts on Russia's relationship with Iran, along with the economic and cultural development of Transcaucasia after the Russo-Persian War, Formalists against Imperialism studies Russian culture within the framework of comparative colonialisms and examines the twentieth-century Russian reconsideration of the country's imperial past."--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2022).
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 224 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781487543860
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