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National identity in post-Soviet Tatarstan
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Romero, John |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | This chapter explores questions of identity, empire, and memory in twenty-first-century literature and film in the Russian Federation's Republic of Tatarstan. Focusing on a 2004 film and a short story published in 2011, I examine how and why these sources utilize the historical context of nineteenth-century, state-sponsored missionary efforts as a setting for discussions of contemporary Tatar identity and nationhood. I argue that this use of the historical past sheds light on how Tatar cultural figures hope to define Tatar identity vis-à-vis the continued presence of Tatarstan within a Russian national state. This chapter explores the questions of identity, empire, and memory in twenty-first-century literature and film in the Russian Federation's Republic of Tatarstan. For Nikolai Il'minskii, nationality or ethnicity serves as an alternative identity to religious confession, one which, at least potentially, saps devotion to a shared Islamic identity. Like Zuleikha, "The Damned" depicts the late imperial period, and the Il'minskii missionary project in particular, in order to emphasize religious confession – although actual belief – as a central feature of Tatar identity. Though Il'minskii's system allowed for relative cultural independence for minority groups, it nonetheless sought to tie them more closely with Russia and, in the long run, to create some sort of pan-imperial identity crafted in Orthodoxy. Tufan Minnullin's status as both a cultural and political figure underscore the reality that his positions exist in mainstream discussion about Tatar identity among political and cultural elites, if not among average citizens. Book Name: Russia's Regional Identities |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2015-0-77912-1&isbn=9781315513331&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 247 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| Starting Page | 229 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315513331-11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-01-17 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Russia's Regional Identities Cultural Studies Il'minskii Century Tatarstan Discussions Tatar Identity National Identity Late Imperial |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
