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The Anticolonial Linguistics of Nikolai Marr
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The Anticolonial Linguistics of Nikolai Marr

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The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of early Soviet cultural politics and an early anticolonial theorist. This volume offers a representative selection of Marr's writing translated here for the first time into English.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781040182772
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
Format noteno protection
Publishing date08/11/2024
LanguageEnglish
File size914 Kbytes
Article no.15026650
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Data source no.5750138
Product groupBU561
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Matthew Carson Allen holds a PhD in French Studies from Warwick University. His dissertation examined the challenges to universalism offered by thinkers from the global periphery including Nikolai Marr and the Haitian intellectual Anténor Firmin. He currently teaches French at secondary school level.

Robert J.C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writings address literature, postcolonial theory, cultural and political history, and psychoanalysis; they are animated by an interest in the forms of thought adopted by people who are subject to marginalization.

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