{"product_id":"on-the-threshold-of-eurasia-leah-feldman-9781501726507","title":"On the Threshold of Eurasia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Threshold of Eurasia\u003c\/i\u003e explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet \"East\" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929. Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, \u003ci\u003eOn the Threshold of Eurasia\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had--through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language --on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leah Feldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501726501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501726507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019","brand":"Leah Feldman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44124252766463,"sku":"9781501726507","price":66.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e60e85e-bc2d-47e7-af56-acb5e5cf95e6.jpg?v=1687435655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-threshold-of-eurasia-leah-feldman-9781501726507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}