- Iranian Studies, Central Asian Studies, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Persian Literature, Tajik language, and 10 moreModern Tajik Literature, Sadriddin Ayni, Culture in the Soviet Union, Turkish, Turkmen and Azerbaijan Languages, Turkmenistan, Chaghatay Turkic literature, Russian Literature, History of Central Asia, Central Asia (History), and Central Asiaedit
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CONTENTS 1. USES OF ORALITY, CENTRALITY OF THE EPIC POEMS AND THEIR POLITICAL POTENTIAL; 1.1. Orality among the “nomads” versus orality among the “sedendary people”; 1.2. The Kyrgyz context and the Manas epic; 1.3. Singing the history... more
CONTENTS
1. USES OF ORALITY, CENTRALITY OF THE EPIC POEMS AND THEIR POLITICAL POTENTIAL;
1.1. Orality among the “nomads” versus orality among the “sedendary people”;
1.2. The Kyrgyz context and the Manas epic;
1.3. Singing the history and memorizing tribal genealogies: the Kazakh context;
1.4. Central Asian versions of three Turkic epics: Gorkut Ata, Gorogly and Alpamysh;
1.5. The Shahnameh, the Barzunameh and the Iranian oral heritage of the Pamir mountains;
2. USES OF WRITING, COURTLY POLITICS AND CHRONIC CULTURAL BILINGUALISM (15th-19th cc.);
2.1. The need to write in Persian and the need to write in Chagatay Turkish;
2.2. Political use of the collection of poems (bayaz) and new literary trends: from the Persian and Chagatay classics to the “Indian style”;
2.3. Poetic imitations, dynastic legitimizations and chronic cultural bilingualism: Nawa’i and timuridisms in the Central Asian Khanates;
2.4. The historical narrative prose of the Central Asian context and the birth of the personal memoirs;
2.5. The need to write in Chagatay Turkish and the need to write in Turkmen;
2.6. The Irano-pamirian identity and the Ismaili branch of Islam;
2.7. The 19th-century “literary reformism”: the new politico-linguistic configurations and the issue of the colonial impact;
2.8. The early 20th century: Central Asian Jadidism and the politicization of literature;
3. LITERATURE AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET REPUBLICS: ALIGNED AND NON-ALIGNED WRITERS;
3.1. Politics and literature in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia: the new literary genres and the boom of historical novels;
3.2. Attributing a sense of meaning to history: Literature and power in Kyrgyzstan;
3.3. Delineating historical continuity: Literature and power in Kazakhstan;
3.4. Civilized desert, historical revisionism, presidents as writers: Literature and power in Turkmenistan;
3.5. Bourgeois nationalism and political-oriented narratives: Literature and power in Uzbekistan;
3.6. Nostalgia for Bukhara and wounds of history: Literature and power in Tajikistan;
Conclusions;
Manuscript sources;
Bibliography;
Glossary;
Index of names.
1. USES OF ORALITY, CENTRALITY OF THE EPIC POEMS AND THEIR POLITICAL POTENTIAL;
1.1. Orality among the “nomads” versus orality among the “sedendary people”;
1.2. The Kyrgyz context and the Manas epic;
1.3. Singing the history and memorizing tribal genealogies: the Kazakh context;
1.4. Central Asian versions of three Turkic epics: Gorkut Ata, Gorogly and Alpamysh;
1.5. The Shahnameh, the Barzunameh and the Iranian oral heritage of the Pamir mountains;
2. USES OF WRITING, COURTLY POLITICS AND CHRONIC CULTURAL BILINGUALISM (15th-19th cc.);
2.1. The need to write in Persian and the need to write in Chagatay Turkish;
2.2. Political use of the collection of poems (bayaz) and new literary trends: from the Persian and Chagatay classics to the “Indian style”;
2.3. Poetic imitations, dynastic legitimizations and chronic cultural bilingualism: Nawa’i and timuridisms in the Central Asian Khanates;
2.4. The historical narrative prose of the Central Asian context and the birth of the personal memoirs;
2.5. The need to write in Chagatay Turkish and the need to write in Turkmen;
2.6. The Irano-pamirian identity and the Ismaili branch of Islam;
2.7. The 19th-century “literary reformism”: the new politico-linguistic configurations and the issue of the colonial impact;
2.8. The early 20th century: Central Asian Jadidism and the politicization of literature;
3. LITERATURE AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET REPUBLICS: ALIGNED AND NON-ALIGNED WRITERS;
3.1. Politics and literature in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia: the new literary genres and the boom of historical novels;
3.2. Attributing a sense of meaning to history: Literature and power in Kyrgyzstan;
3.3. Delineating historical continuity: Literature and power in Kazakhstan;
3.4. Civilized desert, historical revisionism, presidents as writers: Literature and power in Turkmenistan;
3.5. Bourgeois nationalism and political-oriented narratives: Literature and power in Uzbekistan;
3.6. Nostalgia for Bukhara and wounds of history: Literature and power in Tajikistan;
Conclusions;
Manuscript sources;
Bibliography;
Glossary;
Index of names.
Research Interests: Russian Studies, Persian Literature, Soviet History, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, and 15 moreAfghanistan, Central Asian Studies, Post-Soviet Politics, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Post-Soviet Studies, Islam in Central Asia, Central Asia, Culture in the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, Iranian Literature, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Central Asian Societies
Research Interests: Persian Literature, Middle East Studies, Tajik, Iranian Studies, Central Asian Studies, and 12 moreCentral Asia (History), Central Asian History (Area Studies), Central Asia, Modern Tajik Literature, Tajikistan, Sadriddin Ayni, Persian Culture, Persian, Uzbekistan, Tajik language, Education in Tajikistan, and Central Asian Societies
Compared with numerous critical studies in Central Asian history, politics and society published during recent years, modern languages and literary traditions of Central Asia have received less scholarly attention in the West. If we... more
Compared with numerous critical studies in Central Asian history, politics and society published during recent years, modern languages and literary traditions of Central Asia have received less scholarly attention in the West. If we consider specifically the Iranian world, especially in the modern period, it must be admitted that the linguistics and literature of Central Asia, compared to the linguistics and literature of Iran, remain in need of more investigation.
This collection sheds light on various issues of the Iranian linguistic and literary arena “outside of Iran,” offering a variety of twelve original contributions by both leading scholars and new names in the international academic setting. The regions of Afghanistan, Badakhshan, and Transoxania, important centers of Iranian languages and literatures, are here brought back into their broader Iranian context, for the benefit of Iranian as well as Soviet and post-Soviet studies.
This collection sheds light on various issues of the Iranian linguistic and literary arena “outside of Iran,” offering a variety of twelve original contributions by both leading scholars and new names in the international academic setting. The regions of Afghanistan, Badakhshan, and Transoxania, important centers of Iranian languages and literatures, are here brought back into their broader Iranian context, for the benefit of Iranian as well as Soviet and post-Soviet studies.
Research Interests: Persian Literature, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Afghanistan, Central Asian Studies, and 18 morePersian Language, Central Asia (History), Islamic Studies, Central Eurasian Studies, Indo-Iranian Linguistics, Central Asia, Culture in the Soviet Union, Modern Tajik Literature, Tajikistan, Iranian Literature, Turco-Iranian World, Iranian Languages, Persian, Uzbekistan, Pashto, Pamir Languages, Comparative Middle Eastern literatures, and Pashtuns
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Research Interests: Russian Studies, Comparative Literature, Persian Literature, Literature, The Historical Novel, and 12 moreIranian Studies, Central Asian Studies, Russian & Soviet Art, Central Asia, Culture in the Soviet Union, Modern Tajik Literature, Tajikistan, Sadriddin Ayni, Russia, Uzbekistan, Bukhara, and Bukhara Khanate
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Keywords: Bukhara emirate; Jadidism in Central Asia; Ahmad Makhdum Danish; Sadr al-Din ‘Ayni; Sharif-jan Makhdum-i Sadr-i Ziya; Mirza ‘Abd al-Vahid Munzim
Research Interests: Persian Literature, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Astrology, Central Asian Studies, and 16 moreManuscript Studies, Central Asia (History), Iranian History, Central Asian History (Area Studies), Central Asia, Modern Tajik Literature, Tajikistan, Persian Culture, Turco-Iranian World, Jadidism, Astronomy, Uzbekistan, Islamic Manuscripts, Persian and Indian Miniature Painting, Islamic manuscript, and Bukhara Khanate
Muḥammad ‘Umar Khān; Nādira; Muḥammad ‘Ali Khān; Muḥammad Šarif Gulkhani; Maḥmud Makhmur; Junaydullā Ḥāẕiq; Dilšād Barnā. Амир Умархон, Нодирабегим, Мадалихон, Мухаммад Шариф Гулхани, Махмуд Махмур, Чунайдулло Хозик, Дилшод Барно.
Research Interests: Women's Studies, Persian Literature, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Central Asian Studies, and 14 moreCentral Asia (History), Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkish History, Iranian History, Turkic Speaking Peoples, Central Asia, Tajikistan, Turco-Iranian World, Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Chaghatay Turkic literature, Uzbekistan, Turcology, and Turkish Language and Literature
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Title in Italian: "La letteratura tagica fra riforme e rivoluzioni (1870-1954). Con uno studio preliminare delle Ëddoštho [Memorie] di Sadriddin Ajnī e appendici bibliografiche" The thesis focuses on the period of reforms and... more
Title in Italian: "La letteratura tagica fra riforme e rivoluzioni (1870-1954). Con uno studio preliminare delle Ëddoštho [Memorie] di Sadriddin Ajnī e appendici bibliografiche"
The thesis focuses on the period of reforms and revolutions the Tajik intellectuals and men of letters experienced in the field of culture and literature from the second half of the 19th century, when Tsarist Russia penetrated in Turkestan, to the first Soviet decades (1870-1954).
In 1870, Ahmad Donish, one of the first reformers in the history of Modern Tajik literature, wrote the Risola dar nazmi tamaddun va taovun [Treatise on the organization and regulation of common decency], trying to persuade the emir of Bukhara of the need of reforms.
In 1954, Sadriddin Ayni, the author commonly regarded as the founder of Soviet Tajik literature, died of disease. His final major work, Yoddoshtho [Reminiscences; 1948-1954, uncompleted], to which a preliminary study is devoted to in this thesis, is a collection of lively short-stories where the author describes his childhood spent in two villages near Bukhara, his youth and schooldays in Bukhara city between 1882 and 1903, also depicting the social and economic situation of the Emirate with particular reference to the lowest social strata (petty farmers and craftsmen) living there.
The period under consideration in this thesis also marked the transition from the manuscript era to the periodical press age.
The reformers of the first two decades of the 20th century, the Jadids, turned newspapers and journals into an instrument of protest against the social, cultural, and spiritual degradation of the Bukhara Emirate. In the 1920s, magazines became a platform for the expression of a nascent Tajik nationalism, as in those years Tajikistan, rather than a Federal Republic of the Soviet Union, was an Autonomous Region within the Republic of Uzbekistan. Moreover, Soviet magazines became the first editorial space for the spreading of the Tajik realistic prose, since during the 1920s and the 1930s Tajik tales and novels were first published there in serial form, later in book form."
The thesis focuses on the period of reforms and revolutions the Tajik intellectuals and men of letters experienced in the field of culture and literature from the second half of the 19th century, when Tsarist Russia penetrated in Turkestan, to the first Soviet decades (1870-1954).
In 1870, Ahmad Donish, one of the first reformers in the history of Modern Tajik literature, wrote the Risola dar nazmi tamaddun va taovun [Treatise on the organization and regulation of common decency], trying to persuade the emir of Bukhara of the need of reforms.
In 1954, Sadriddin Ayni, the author commonly regarded as the founder of Soviet Tajik literature, died of disease. His final major work, Yoddoshtho [Reminiscences; 1948-1954, uncompleted], to which a preliminary study is devoted to in this thesis, is a collection of lively short-stories where the author describes his childhood spent in two villages near Bukhara, his youth and schooldays in Bukhara city between 1882 and 1903, also depicting the social and economic situation of the Emirate with particular reference to the lowest social strata (petty farmers and craftsmen) living there.
The period under consideration in this thesis also marked the transition from the manuscript era to the periodical press age.
The reformers of the first two decades of the 20th century, the Jadids, turned newspapers and journals into an instrument of protest against the social, cultural, and spiritual degradation of the Bukhara Emirate. In the 1920s, magazines became a platform for the expression of a nascent Tajik nationalism, as in those years Tajikistan, rather than a Federal Republic of the Soviet Union, was an Autonomous Region within the Republic of Uzbekistan. Moreover, Soviet magazines became the first editorial space for the spreading of the Tajik realistic prose, since during the 1920s and the 1930s Tajik tales and novels were first published there in serial form, later in book form."