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From Kräshen Past to Tatar Present: Gayaz Iskhakyi's Zuleikha on the Tatar Stage in 1917 and 1992
Author(s) -
GOLDBERG MADINA ZAINULLINA
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/russ.12108
Subject(s) - tatar , drama , identity (music) , period (music) , history , soviet union , literature , art , law , political science , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , politics
Drawing on a variety of cultural sources, drama and theatrical productions in particular, this historical study, entitled “From Kräshen Past to Tatar Present: Gayaz Iskhakyi's Zuleikha on the Tatar Stage, 1917 and 1992” addresses the ways in which the Tatar historical past was conceptualized in multiple productions of a key Tatar modernist theatrical work, Gayaz Iskhakyi's Zuleikha . It engages three highly charged historical contexts–the Krä;shen apostasy movement of the 1860s, the time immediately following the February Revolution of 1917 and the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it looks at theater as a unique medium to investigate the dynamics of social and cultural identity and change.