Writing at Russia's Border by Katya Hokanson
Journal: The Modern Language Review
Year: 2010

MLR, 105.2, 2010 619 Writing at Russia's Border. By Katya Hokanson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2008. x+301 pp. ?42. ISBN 978-0-8020-9306-6. At the heart of Katya Hokanson's study is the notion that Russian literature dis covered its sense of national identity (or narodnost', to give it in theRussian form preferred byHokanson) not by exploring the spaces and characters of the domestic centre, but by depicting the imperial encounter (to put itno more strongly) that took place on Russia'