Title Blood of others : Stalin's Crimean atrocity and the poetics of solidarity / Rory Finnin

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Terminology -- Introduction -- PART ONE Possession -- Chapter One. Imperial Objects -- Chapter Two. Colonial Eyes -- PART TWO Dispossession -- Chapter Three. Ethnic Cleansing, Discursive Cleansing -- Chapter Four. The Guiltless Guilty -- Chapter Five. Trident and Tamğa -- Chapter Six. Incense and Drum -- PART THREE Repossession -- Chapter Seven. Selective Affinities -- Chapter Eight. Losing Home, Finding Home -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "'In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose--some passed hand-to-hand underground, others published to controversy--shocked the conscience of readers and sought to move them to action. Blood of Others presents these works as vivid evidence of literature's power to lift our moral horizons. In bringing these remarkable texts to light and contextualizing them among Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian representations of Crimea from 1783, Rory Finnin provides an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region. He reveals how a "poetics of solidarity" promoted empathy and support for an oppressed people through complex provocations of guilt rather than shame. Forging new roads between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, Blood of Others is a compelling and timely exploration of the ideas and identities coursing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine--three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 8, 2022) Subject Ukrainian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Turkish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Ethnic relations in literature. Literature and society -- Ukraine -- Crimea -- History -- 20th century Crimean Tatars -- Relocation -- History -- 20th century Crimean Tatars -- Ukraine -- Crimea -- Social conditions -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union). LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern Ethnic relations Ethnic relations in literature Intellectual life Literature Literature and society Tatars Ukrainian literature Crimea (Ukraine) -- In literature Crimea (Ukraine) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Crimea (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Crimea (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century Ukraine -- Crimea Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487537012 9781487537005 1487537018 148753700X

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