The backstreets : a novel from Xinjiang
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Author
Contributors
Byler, Darren, Translator
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2022].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780231202916, 0231202911
Physical Desc
xxviii, 136 pages 22 cm.
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Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2022].
Street Date
2205
Language
English
ISBN
9780231202916, 0231202911
Notes
Description
"An astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. He wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter pollution, reciting a monologue of numbers and odors, lust and loathing, memories and madness.Perhat Tursun's novel is a work of untrammeled literary creativity. His evocative prose recalls a vast array of canonical world writers-contemporary Chinese authors such as Mo Yan; the modernist images and rhythms of Camus, Dostoevsky, and Kafka; the serious yet absurdist dissection of the logic of racism in Ellison's Invisible Man-while drawing deeply on Uyghur literary traditions and Sufi poetics and combining all these disparate influences into a style that is distinctly Tursun's own. The Backstreetsis a stark fable about urban isolation and social violence, dehumanization and the racialization of ethnicity. Yet its protagonist's vivid recollections of maternal tenderness and first love reveal how memory and imagination offer profound forms of resilience. A translator's introduction situates the novel in the political atmosphere that led to the disappearance of both the author and his work"--.,Provided by publisher.
Language
Translated from Uighur.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tursun, P., & Byler, D. (2022). The backstreets: a novel from Xinjiang . Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tursun, Perhat, 1969- and Darren, Byler. 2022. The Backstreets: A Novel From Xinjiang. Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tursun, Perhat, 1969- and Darren, Byler. The Backstreets: A Novel From Xinjiang Columbia University Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tursun, Perhat, and Darren Byler. The Backstreets: A Novel From Xinjiang Columbia University Press, 2022.
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