Knowing Russia's Convicts: The Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile of the Late Imperial Era

The essay explores the significance of questions of knowledge to the depiction of prisoners in three prominent katorga narratives from the second half of the nineteenth century: Dostoevskii's Notes from the House of the Dead, Kennan's Siberia and the Exile System, and Chekhov's Sakhal...

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Main Author: Sarah J. Young
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09668136.2013.844509