Rory Finnin
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
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In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. Works of literature, such as poetry and prose, broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey and revealed the power of literature to lift our moral horizons. Blood of Others provides an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region, showing how a poetics of solidarity promoted empathy and support for an oppressed people through complex provocations of guilt rather than shame.
Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
In the spring of 1944, Stalin forcibly expelled the Crimean Tatars, a diminutive Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this tragic event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, remained shrouded in secrecy following the conclusion of the Second World War. However, it was the works of literature that shattered the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey. These literary creations, comprising poetry and prose, some smuggled hand-to-hand underground and others published despite controversy, deeply stirred the conscience of readers and aimed to inspire them to take action.
Blood of Others presents these remarkable works as irrefutable evidence of the profound power of literature to expand our moral horizons. By illuminating these texts and contextualizing them within Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian representations of Crimea from 1783, Rory Finnin offers an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region. Through intricate provocations of guilt rather than shame, he reveals how a poetics of solidarity fostered empathy and support for an oppressed people. By forging new pathways between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, Blood of Others is a captivating and timely exploration of the ideas and identities flowing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, three countries instrumental in shaping the destiny of a volatile and geopolitically significant region of our world.
Weight: 630g
Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487507817
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