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Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Editor); Nicole Svobodny (Editor); Ludmilla A. Trigos (Editor)
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- Title Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness
- Author Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Editor); Nicole Svobodny (Editor); Ludmilla A. Trigos (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 488
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Northwestern University Press
- Date May 30, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780810119710 / 0810119714
- Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.3 x 0.98 in (23.67 x 16.00 x 2.49 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Russian
- Ethnic Orientation: African
- Library of Congress subjects Blacks in literature, Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich - Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005016715
- Dewey Decimal Code 891.713
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Evanston, IL, USA: Northwestern University Press, 2006. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, little shelf rubbing apparent. Text and images inside appear clean and clear throughout. 'Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been…
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