Molla Nasreddin : : The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 / / Janet Afary.

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• VerfasserIn: Afary, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Năm xuất bản: 2022
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (398 p.) :; 319 colour illustrations 319 colour illustrations

Explores the iconic illustrated periodical Mollā Nasreddin, whose editors, writers and illustrators were Azerbaijani Muslims and Georgians of South CaucasusProvides a new reading of the text and illustrations of one of the most well-known journals in the Muslim region in the early 20th centuryDraws...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Map of Safavid Empire
• Map of Russian Expansion in Caucasus, 1878–1914
• Google Map of Region (2021)
• Introduction
• PART I The World of the Journal
• CHAPTER 1 South Caucasus at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• CHAPTER 2 The Staff and Major Contributors
• CHAPTER 3 Tiflis and its Hybrid Artistic Community
• PART II Reimagining the Folk Trickster and Rethinking Gender Norms
• CHAPTER 4 The Wise Fool and the Trickster Nasreddin
• CHAPTER 5 Recreating the Trickster Tales and Tropes in Azerbaijani Language
• CHAPTER 6 A Champion of Women’s Rights
• PART III The Influence of European Graphic Arts
• CHAPTER 7 A Dialogue with Goya and Daumier
• CHAPTER 8 A Conversation with Punch, Simplicissimus and the World of Art
• Epilogue
• References
• Index