Participants in the 2021 meeting finalized a series of essays they intend to submit to the journal Representations as a “special section.” Representations were premised on the idea that studying literature in historical contexts offers a window into how culture, in a particular moment or time, represents reality to itself.
Workshop participants are replanting this notion in Central Asian contexts, examining the distinct ways in which Central Asian literatures assembled reality in the region’s diverse imperial and Soviet settings.