This interdisciplinary study is a comprehensive survey of cultural discourse and literary production in Kazakhstan. It examines the construction of national narratives before and after Soviet rule and argues that literature has held a central role in the creation of Kazakhstan's national identity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: National Survival, Alash, and Modern Kazakh Literary Debates
Chapter 2: Self-Orientalization and Re-writing the Narrative
Chapter 3: The Formation of Soviet-Kazakh Literature Canons
Chapter 4: Mukhtar Auezov's Abai Zholy and the Encyclopedia of the Kazakh Nation
Chapter 5: Nomads/Koshpendiler and the Re-Discovery of the Past: Canonizing Nomadism
Chapter 6: Mukhtar Magauin's Cultural Archaeology in Soviet and post-Soviet Kazakhstan's National History and Literature
Chapter 7: Internationalism, Postcolonialism and Kazakh Soviet Literature in the 1960s and 1980s: Anuar Alimzhanov, Satimzhan Sanbayev, and Murat Auezov
Chapter 8: Olzhas Suleimenov and the Un-Bounded Imagination of the Past
Chapter 9: December 1986 and the National Imagination in the Post-Independent Era
Chapter 10: Timeless and Post-National: Gerold Belger's narration on Kazakhstan
