“A Bridge Between Us”: Literature in the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Encounter
Journal: Comparative Literature Studies
Year: 2019

At a time of geopolitical instability in the Black Sea region, the question of the solidarity between two ethnically, religiously, and linguistically divergent peoples - Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars - will influence the extent to which Crimea remains a global flashpoint for the foreseeable future. Despite its significance, however, this solidary relationship has been either overlooked as a discrete object of enquiry or dismissed as a mere political "marriage of convenience" in research literatu