Alien visions : the Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American literature / Margaret Ziolkowski.

Author/creator Ziolkowski, Margaret, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2005.
Description239 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
American literature--History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
American literature--Indian authors. --History and criticism.
Navajo Indians in literature.
Comparative literature--American and Russian.
Comparative literature--Russian and American.
Russian literature--History and criticism.
Chechni͡a︡ (Russia)--History. --Civil War, 1994-. --Literature and the war.
Chechni͡a︡ (Russia)--In literature.

Contents Russian orientalism : inventing the evil Chechen -- Sympathy for the devil : Anatolii Pristavkin and the Chechen deportation -- Popular and unpopular enemies : the Russo-Chechen conflict in contemporary Russian literature -- Reservation blues : education and alienation among the Navajos -- Remembering Bosque Redondo : the Navajo deportation in twentieth-century literature -- Solving crimes in Navajoland : the medicine man and his alter egos.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.
LCCN 2005008234
ISBN0874139260 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS173.I6 Z55 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold