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Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature - Elites and Narratives (Hardcover)
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Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature - Elites and Narratives (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
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Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature is a book about
cultural transformations and trajectories of national imagination
in modern Kazakhstan. The book is a much-needed critical
introduction and a comprehensive survey of the Kazakh literary
production and cultural discourses on the nation in the twentieth
and twenty first centuries. In the absence of viable and open
forums for discussion and in the turbulent moments of postcolonial
and cultural transformation under the Soviets, the Kazakh writers
and intellectuals widely engaged with the national identity,
heritage and genealogy construction in literature. This active
process of national canon construction and its constant re-writing
throughout the twentieth century will inform the readers of the
complex processes of cultural transformations in forms, genres and
texts as well as demonstrating the genealogical development of the
national narrative. The main focus of this book is on the cultural
production of the nation. The focus is on the narratives of
historical continuities produced in the literature and cultural
discontinuities and inter-elite competition which inform such
production. The development of Kazakh literary production is an
extremely interesting yet underrepresented field of study. Since
the late nineteenth century it saw a rapid transformation from the
traditional oral to print literature. This brought an unprecedented
shift in genres and texts production as well as a rapid growth of
the 'writing' class - urban colonial and first generations of
Soviet intelligentsia. Kazakh literary production became the
flagman of republic's rapid cultural modernization and prior to the
World War II local publishing industry produced up to 6 million
print copies a year. By the 1960s and 1970s - the golden era of
Kazakh literature, the most read literary journal Juldyz sold
50,000 copies all over the country. Literature became the mass
provider of knowledge about the past, the present and of the future
of the country. Because "Kazakh readers were hungry to find out
about their pre-Soviet past and its national glory" national
writers competed in genres, styles and ways to write out the nation
in prose, poems, essays and historical novels.
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