1st Edition
The Anticolonial Linguistics of Nikolai Marr A Critical Reader
Introduction: Resituating Nikolai Marr
Robert J. C. Young
1. Japhetic Languages
Nikolai Marr and Anna Kurkova
2. On the Question of the Tasks of Armenian Studies
Nikolai Marr and Anna Kurkova
3. The Japhetites
Nikolai Marr and Anna Kurkova
4. Main Achievements of the Japhetic Theory
Nikolai Marr and Anna Kurkova
5. On the Origin of Languages
Nikolai Marr and Anna Kurkova
6. Nikolai Marr’s Critique of Indo-European Philology and the Subaltern Critique of Brahman Nationalism in Colonial India
Craig Brandist
7. If Vico Had Read Engels He Would Be Called Nikolai Marr
Patrick Sériot and Matthew Carson Allen
8. Japhetic grammatology: Marr, Derrida and Archi-writing
Matthew Carson Allen
9. Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin’s Article “Experience Based on a Study of Demand among Kolkhoz Workers”
Anna Balysheva
10. “Experience Based on a Study of Demand among Kolkhoz Workers”
Mikhail Bakhtin
Biography
Matthew Carson Allen holds a PhD in French Studies from Warwick University. His dissertation examined the challenges to universalism offered by thinkers from the global periphery including Nikolai Marr and the Haitian intellectual Anténor Firmin. He currently teaches French at secondary school level.
Robert J.C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writings address literature, postcolonial theory, cultural and political history, and psychoanalysis; they are animated by an interest in the forms of thought adopted by people who are subject to marginalization.
