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Article: Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African Soul.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African Soul. By DALE E. PETERSON. London and Durham: Duke University Press. 2000. 256 pp. 37 [pound sterling] (pbk 12.95 [pounds sterling]).
Any book which has the words 'Russian' and 'soul' on its cover risks being treated with some suspicion by Western Slavists. However, any fears that this is going to be some exercise in windy Slavic emotionalism are soon allayed. Dale Peterson has in fact produced an excellent example of the somewhat neglected art of comparative literature, by juxtaposing a series of Russian texts and Afro-American texts (it comes, incidentally, as a surprise to discover that the term 'Russian ...
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