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).

lt;i>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 Festic: 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 fransiz edebiyatlarinda birbirlerine ait kliseler - 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.