Pernille Strande · @Spstrande
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ATJ · @atriverside
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Jangar, The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads, trans. by Saglar Bougdaeva, forthcoming in January 2023.
"... When the first translation, into #Russian, finally appeared, #Stalin had the entire #Kalmyk population deported to #Siberia & ordered that their national literature be eliminated from the published world"
#EurasianSteppe #Nomads #Mongols #OralLiterature
🙏 Cover & excerpt of this landmark English translation of #Jangar, courtesy University of California Press:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344723/jangar
#russian #stalin #kalmyk #siberia #eurasiansteppe #nomads #mongols #oralliterature #jangar