A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature - Rilegato

Kleespies, Ingrid

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ISBN 10: 0875804616 ISBN 13: 9780875804613

Casa editrice: Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness came to constitute important elements in the discourse about national identity. For Russians of the nineteenth century national identity was anything but stable.

This rootlessness is at the core of A Nation Astray. Here, Ingrid Anne Kleespies traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of literary works by seminal writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Chaadaev, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky. Appealing to students of Russian Romanticism, nationhood, and identity, as well as general readers interested in exile and displacement as elements of the human condition, this interdisciplinary work illuminates the historical and philosophical underpinnings of a basic aspect of Russian self-determination: the nomadic constitution of the Russian nation.

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Ingrid Anne Kleespies is assistant professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida.

Ingrid Anne Kleespies is assistant professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Northern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0875804616
• ISBN 13: 9780875804613
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile