Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature: Elites and Narratives

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Note on Transliteration and Translations
1 National Survival, Alash, and Modern Kazakh Literary Debates
2 Self-Orientalization and Rewriting of the Narrative
3 The Formation of Soviet Kazakh Literary Canon
4 Mukhtar Auezov’s Abai Zholy and the Encyclopedia of the Kazakh Nation
5 Koshpendiler and the Re-Discovery of the Past: Canonizing Nomadism
6 Magauin’s Cultural Archaeology in Kazakhstan’s National History and Literature
7 Internationalism, Post-Colonialism,and Kazakh Soviet Literature in the 1960s and 1980s: Anuar Alimzhanov, Satimzhan Sanbayev, and Murat Auezov
8 Olzhas Suleimenov and the Un-Bounded Imagination of the Past
9 The December 1986 Events and the National Imagination in the Post-Independence Era
10 Timeless and Post-National: Gerold Belger’s Narration on Kazakhstan
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author