Emily Laskin

Bio

Emily Laskin holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on Russian imperialism and the centuries-long encounter between Russia and Central Asia. At present, she is an editor at Meduza, Russia’s leading independent newspaper (currently operating in exile).

Contributions

Toward a Theory of Second-World Literature: The Case of Sadriddin Aini’s Reminiscences

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Sadriddin Aini (b. 1878), the “founder of Soviet Tajik prose,” published his final literary work, Reminiscences ( Yoddoshto) in 1949. [1] A poet, essayist, literary critic and fiction writer, Aini produced a large and varied body of work from the years just preceding the Revolution’s arrival in Central Asia up to his death in 1954. Writing in the Persian vernacular of the Ferghana Valley, where he was raised, he helped to create and codify Tajik as a literary language that could give expression...

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