![]() ![]() The intersectional history of violence through which Khlebnikov imagines a community of minorities, misfits, and mystics wandering between the peripheries of the Russian and British Empires challenges monolithic constructs of the Orient as well as dominant discourses of Russian and Indian national identity. ![]() ![]() Khlebnikov's quasi-fictional journey from Russia's Islamic borderlands to the Indian subcontinent “in search of an idea that will free all oppressed people” transforms Madame Blavatsky's heosophical interpretation of ancient Indian religious philosophy into a cornerstone of political resistance against global imperialism in the twentieth century. This is the space from which Velimir Khlebnikov, modernist poet and philosopher of history, articulates a vision of revolutionary internationalism. Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume II: Prose, Plays and Supersagas Hardcover Novemby Velimir Khlebnikov (Author), Paul Schmidt (Author), Ronald Vroon (Author) No reviews See all formats and editions Hardcover 49.90 3 Used from 49.90 2 New from 102. Between the Volga and the Ganges lies a vast yet little-examined zone of linguistic, religious, ethnoracial, and political contact shaped over many centuries by mobile communities of traders, saints, soldiers, and rebels. Vol.2: Prose, plays, and supersagas - Velimir Khlebnikovs Krysa: a commentary - Pomes - Istoki sverhprozy Hlebnikova. ![]()
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