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On the Threshold of Eurasia explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet "East" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929. Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers.Tracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, On the Threshold of Eurasia illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had-through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language -on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.

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Former Soviet Union

Post-Soviet states

Literary theory

20th century

Russian

History of Europe

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 octobre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501726514
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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On the Threshold of Eurasia

OnTheThresholdof Eurasia

RevolutionaryPoeticsintheCaucasus

LeahFeldman

CornellUniversityPressIthaca and London

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Names: Feldman, Leah, author. Title:OnthethresholdofEurasia:revolutionarypoeticsintheCaucasus / Leah Feldman. Description:Ithaca:CornellUniversityPress,2018.|Includesbibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers:LCCN2018002248(print)|LCCN2018005984(ebook)|ISBN 9781501726514 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501726521 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501726507 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects:LCSH:Caucasianliterature—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism. | Azerbaijani literature—20th century—History and criticism. | Russian literature—20th century—History and criticism. | Poetics—History—20th century. | Insurgency in literature. | Azerbaijan—Intellectual life—20th century. | Caucasus—Relations— Russia. | Russia—Relations—Caucasus. | Caucasus—Relations— Soviet Union. | Soviet Union—Relations—Caucasus. Classiﬁcation:LCCPK9030(ebook)|LCCPK9030.F452018(print)|DDC 899/.96—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018002248

Cover illustrations: From the Collection of the Mardjani Foundation. Used by permission.

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Acknowledgmentsix

Contents

NoteonTransliterationxiii

Introduction:HeterodoxyandHeterologyontheThresholdof Eurasia

PartI.HeterodoxyandImperialReturns

1.ParodicandMessianicGenealogies:ReadingGogolinAzeri in the Late Imperial Caucasus39

2.AestheticsofEmpathy:TheAzeriSubjectinTranslationsof Pushkin80

PartII.HeterologyandUtopianFutures

3.AWindowontotheEast:Baku’sAvant-gardePoeticsand theTranslatio Imperii125

4.BrokenVerse:TheMaterialityoftheSymbolinNewTurkic Poetics176

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Contents

Postscript:LatinizationandReﬁli’s“TheWindow”ontoSoviet Azerbaijan208

Notes217

References241

Index259

Acknowledgments

DescribingtheworldofFyodorDostoevsky’spoetics,thetheoristMikhail Bakhtin wrote, “There is almost no word without an intense side-ward glance at someone else’s word” (1997–2012, 6:227). This vision of authorship as both an intertextual and intersubjective phenomenon not only inspired the writing of this book but structured the process of its composition. To say that I am indebted to the many great mentors, col-leagues, family, and friends who have shared their minds with me over the course of writing this book would perhaps not capture the animating force their words played in igniting and guiding my own. In many ways, this book is a set of sideward glances at other people’s words, written and spoken, a collection of moments in which the self fragments into that brilliant multiplicity of scattered thoughts that ﬁnd their way into a ﬂ uid dialogue. Thisbookwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutthecontributionsofseveral individuals and institutions. The language training, research, and writing of this project were funded by generous contributions from the