Postcolonial identities in Russophone women’s writing from the Caucasus and central Asia
Journal: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
Year: 2019

My project examines how post-Soviet women writers outside of Russia, namely those in the Caucasus and Central Asia, respond to the post- Soviet transition and define their post-Soviet identities. The starting position of my thesis is that the current developments in the post-Soviet region cannot be understood without reference to postcolonial theory and that, to a large extent, post-Soviet identity is a postcolonial identity. Using theoretical tools of postcolonial studies (Bhabha, Vizenor, Tlos