Rebecca Gould, Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus

Abstract

“Literary Caucasus” has recently received much attention from the specialists of the region, but only a few of them have addressed local anti-colonial literatures. Thus, the book by Rebecca Gould is highly original in considering literatures of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Georgia in comparative perspective. The author can also be praised for the great diversity of her sources in different languages. Rebecca Gould has attempted not only to transpose or verify a number of concepts or a theory suc...