| dcterms.contributor.author | Colombo, Duccio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-19T07:32:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-19T07:32:22Z | |
| dcterms.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dcterms.identifier.citation | Colombo, D. Carrying the Red Man’s Burden: Pavel Luknitskii, or Kipling in the Soviet Pamir. "europa orientalis", 37 (2018): 61-74 | it_IT |
| dcterms.identifier.issn | 0392-4580 | it_IT |
| dcterms.identifier.uri | http://www.europaorientalis.it/ | it_IT |
| dcterms.identifier.uri | http://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/4440 | |
| dcterms.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-2642 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Kipling’s work in the Soviet Union was heavily criticized as an expression
of imperialism; yet, it was widely read and translated – it was clearly more
acceptable than that of Nikolai Gumilev, “the Kipling from Tsarskoe Selo”,
a purported counter-revolutionary whose name itself was forbidden.
This explains the apparent contradictions in the image of Pavel Luknitskii –
from one side, a scholar of Gumilev, from the other, an official Soviet writer. His novel Nisso (1946), based on his travels in the Pamir, is a classic of
Soviet literature about the Asian republics.
The novel’s plot is built around a classic Colonial triangle, mixed with a typical Soviet collectivization story. The setting purportedly reconstructs the
Shugnan region that the author described in his travelogues; many traits in
the depiction, however, appear to be highly arguable and expose Luknitskii’s
colonialist attitude. The border between Soviet Tajikistan and Afghanistan,
carrying the novel’s fundamental symbolic weight, in particular, is nothing
but the border between the respective spheres of influence the Russian and
the British Empires agreed upon in 1895. The Soviet writers thus needed to
construct the Shugnans as a nationality in order to find a place for them inside
the Soviet family. | it_IT |
| dcterms.format.extent | P. 61-74 | it_IT |
| dc.language.iso | en | it_IT |
| dcterms.source | UniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Luknitskii | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Kipling | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Pamir | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Colonialism | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Soviet literature | it_IT |
| dcterms.title | Carrying the Red Man’s Burden: Pavel Luknitskii, or Kipling in the Soviet Pamir | it_IT |
| dcterms.type | Article | it_IT |
