Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature.' Anthropology and Humanism, 41 (1). pp. 86-101.
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This essay chronicles a journey through the Caucasus toward the end of the second Russo-Chechen war. It focuses in particular on the discovery of a little-known Soviet-era work of historical fiction by the Ingush author Idris Bazorkin (1910-1991). In introducing Bazorkin to the Anglophone reader, I examine the intertextual linkages between his fiction and indigenous Ingush traditions and thereby reveal the thematic and generic range of Ingush literary modernity. By yoking together literary and ethnographic approaches that are often severed from each other, Bazorkin suggests an alternative conception of the relationship between literature and anthropology. Through its writing method as well as its critical analysis, this essay introduces Bazorkin's anthropology of literature.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 15481409 |
| Copyright Statement: | This is the version of the article accepted for publication in Anthropology and Humanism, 41 (1). pp. 86-101, (2016), published by Wiley. Re-use is subject to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12109 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 07:07 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40489 |
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