Blood of Others : : Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity / / Rory Finnin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Finnin, Rory,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 7 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps

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 World War Two. 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 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.

Table of 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