title: The Experience of Employing the Slave Narrative Genre in Describing the History of the Caucasus
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metadata.value: Peretyatko, Artyom Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T11:00:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T11:00:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Peretyatko A. Yu. The Experience of Employing the Slave Narrative Genre in Describing the History of the Caucasus. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 1, рp. 302–313.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.119
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/27915
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metadata.value: The genre of the slave narrative is unique, and is essential to African-American culture. Yet,
  up to now, personally written stories describing the journey to freedom traveled by “heroic
  slaves”, writings that could well qualify as nonfiction, have received little attention outside
  of the US and UK. This makes all the more interesting the attempt by prominent Russian
  historian A. A. Cherkasov to employ the slave narrative genre in describing the history of the
  Caucasus, undertaken in his collection of documents “Circassian Slave Narratives”. This review
  of the collection attempts to analyze the phenomenon of the slave narrative and determine
  the degree to which it could be transposed to Russia. It is shown that while a portion of
  the documents published by A. A. Cherkasov, specifically interviews with slaves who escaped
  from Russia to Circassia, do seem to fit in with the slave narrative genre in theme, most of
  the Russian-Circassian slave narratives are completely different from classic slave narratives
  in content and style. These are not publicistic memoirs written for abolitionist purposes but
  documentation maintained to keep records of fugitives. In the end, the author of the article
  draws the conclusion that it is impossible to have an exact analogue of the slave narrative for
  Russian history as the figure of the heroic slave is not something that is typical for Russian
  history. Accordingly, despite the fact that fugitive slaves’ testimonies were widely written down
  at the time, as was the case in Circassia, the outcome was a completely different type of writing
  typologically. However, if the slave narrative is viewed in a broad sense, as an aggregate of
  first-hand slave accounts that can help provide the reader with a comprehensive documentary
  picture of the life of actual slaves, “Circassian Slave Narratives” may well be considered a worthy
  representative of the genre. A. A. Cherkasov provides 180 interviews with slaves and over
  1,000 thematically contiguous record-keeping documents, which offer a unique insight into
  Circassian slavery specifically. Consequently, while it is hardly possible to use the classic slave
  narrative in describing Russian history, there may be considerable potential in its creative
  reconceptualization, as has been well substantiated by A. A. Cherkasov.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: slavery
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: slave narrative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: publication of documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Caucasian War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Circassia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Experience of Employing the Slave Narrative Genre in Describing the History of the Caucasus
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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