Stereotypes in Literatures and Cultures

The Editors: Rahilya Geybullayeva is Professor and Head of the Department of Journalism and Azerbaijani Literature at Baku Slavic University. She holds a Ph.D. from Moscow State University and served as Visiting Professor as Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin (USA) and as UNESCO scholar at SOAS, London. Peter Orte is a Ph.D. student of Comparative Literature Department at the University of Wisconsin (USA).

• Contents: Aslan Mammadli: Circassians in Russian sources – Nino Kvirikadze: The phenomenon of German nation in Thomas Mann’s essay «Germany and the Germans» – Gönül Bakay: Turks or Jews? – Kun Jong Lee: Stereotypes of Korean Americans in African American popular culture – Izabella Horvath: Uygur scholar’s significant discovery: Ancient Uygur historian says Xiongnu are Turks – Irine Modebadze: «Own» and «Others» in contemporary Georgian prose – Naida Khaybullina/M. M. Khaybullina (in Russian language): Caucasus images and stereotypes in Russian prose of XIX century – Tatyana Megrelishvili (in Russian language): Russian-speaking literary Tbilisi as phenomenon of modern intercultural discourse – Guler Abdullabekova (in Russian language): The East in European literary monuments: Persian culture in Polish classic literature – Sudha Swarnakar: Rosie, the stereotype adulteress or a free woman: A Comparative analysis of R. K. Narayan’s novel The Guide and Vijay Anand’s film Guide – Aslan Mammadli: Kurban Said. Pro et contra: attempt of cultural - linguistic analysis of a fictional text – Rahilya Geybullayeva: About stereotypes without stereotypes? – Iraida Krotenko: Status and prospects of National Literary Studies in Literary Theory – Irma Ratiani: Carnival narrative, social imagology and the principles of comparative analyses – Inna Kalita (in Russian language): Ideas of Ian Mukarjovsky in context of the beginning of structuralism and crossing of the two centuries – Izabella Horvath: A lesson in historiography by a contemporary of the Xiungnu: Sima Qian and Chinese Historiography – Paul Dumont: Western exoticism in the accounts of Ottoman travellers in Europe – Didier Francfort: National stereotypes in French and Russian music: cross perceptions of foreign cultures in the building of national music (1800-1990) – Fatima Festić: Myths and memory at crossroads: stereotypes versus complex identities among the South Slavs and the rest – Eric Schmulévitch (in Russian language): Image of the French as described in the film from Stalin period «The Oath», 1946 by Michaels Chiaureli – Gül Mete Yuva: XIX esr türk ve fransız edebiyatlarında birbirlerine ait klişeler – Maka Elbakidze: Stereotypes of the identification of genre: The Knight in the Panther’s Skin – Alena Sarbasheva (in Russian language): Improvised character of lamentation songs in Karachay-Balkarian folklore – Alexander Bushev (in Russian language): Meta-Irony on the stereotypes in modern fiction – Fatima Uzdenova (in Russian language): North Caucasian poem: perspectives – Sevinj Baxish: The stereotypes of the patriarchal worldview and its overcoming in works of K. Jung and L. Irigaray – Nigiar Isgandarova: Gender problems in women’ novels in the XYIII-XIX centuries – Elnara Garagyezova: Stereotypes of women in Azerbaijani literature – Maria Mikhaylova (in Russian language): Creative individuality and image of a writer: the history of G. Zapolskaya’s works in Russia / gender aspect – Anvar Galiyev (in Russian language): Myth about nomadism – Aleksey Olyanich (in Russian language): Lingvo-semiotic characteristics of Russian hunting – Jambul Akkaziev: In the Distant Confines: A narrative of colonial presence – Kenul Aslanova: Concept of national culture in literary works of Alibey Huseynzade – Alexander Skiperskikh (in Russian language): Sources of power in H. C. Andersen’s fairy tales: a political analysis.