Alien visions : the Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American literature

Alien visions : the Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American literature / Margaret Ziolkowski.

Author/creator	Ziolkowski, Margaret, 1952-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2005.
Description	239 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	American literature--History and criticism. Indians in literature. American literature--Indian authors --History and criticism. Navajo Indians in literature. Comparative literature--American and Russian. Comparative literature--Russian and American. Russian literature--History and criticism. Chechni︠a︡ (Russia)--History --Civil War, 1994- --Literature and the war. Chechni︠a︡ (Russia)--In literature.

Contents	Russian orientalism : inventing the evil Chechen -- Sympathy for the devil : Anatolii Pristavkin and the Chechen deportation -- Popular and unpopular enemies : the Russo-Chechen conflict in contemporary Russian literature -- Reservation blues : education and alienation among the Navajos -- Remembering Bosque Redondo : the Navajo deportation in twentieth-century literature -- Solving crimes in Navajoland : the medicine man and his alter egos.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.
LCCN	2005008234
ISBN	0874139260 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS173.I6 Z55 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold