Ani Kokobobo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1304963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ani Kokobobo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ani |
| FAMILY NAME | Kokobobo |
| SIGNATURE | KOKOBOBO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas, where she teaches Russian Literature and Culture. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Dostoevsky Now, from the Margins
Reading Dostoevsky Now, from the Margins Ani Kokobobo (bio) Against increasing calls to "cancel" Dostoevsky due to the Russian nationalism espoused in his writings, Ani Kokobobo chooses to hold on to a Dostoevsky of the margins, a Dostoevsky who tests us ethically when we rationalize horrible means to justify an imagined greater good. As a scholar and reader of literature, I have never seen books as divorced from the present or from our subjectiv…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Dead Storms and Literature's New Horizon
During the Neustadt Prize ceremony on October 21, 2020, David Bellos read the English-language version of Kadare's prize lecture to a worldwide Zoom audience
Tolstoy's Enigmatic Final Hero
Considered an incredibly "anomalous" masterpiece, Tolstoy's last work of fiction, Hadji Murat (1896-1904), renders the life and death of the legendary Avari warrior, Hadji Murat. The novella is aesthetically stunning and surprisingly devoid of Tolstoy's opinionated authorial voice. With its ideologically muted nature, Hadji Murat has provoked "indecision and controversy" among critics, particularly since it impartially narrates phenomena the mora…
The Travelogue and the Ode—Aleksandr Radishchev's Polemic with the Court Ode in Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu
In the oft‐quoted dedication of his Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu , Aleksandr Radishchev's narrator highlights the need to “look straight” and attributes mankind's misery to obscured vision. He sets on his journey in an effort restore proper visual perception to his people. Yet the manner in which the journey can enable this restoration is less than clear. In fact, this issue has prompted several recent reevaluations of vision in the travel…
Bureaucracy of Dreams
Ani Kokobobo addresses the novel The Palace of Dreams (1981) by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, with a particular focus on the larger significance of the novel's dream project. Through fictional processes of dream collection, selection, and interpretation, Kadare meditates on two twentieth-century movements that either overtly or covertly incorporated dreams in their ideological platforms: surrealism and socialism. Kokobobo posits that as a po…
Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Unfinished Portrait of a Country
This book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the past, present, and future of Albania. Prifti offers portraits of prominent Albanians throughout history, including Mother Teresa and Fan S. Noli, former president of Albania, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church in America. He also examines crucial aspects of Albanian politics, economics, as well as the current situation in the Albanian reigion of Kosovo. In his discussions of Albanian cultu…
Tolstoy's Enigmatic Final Hero
Considered an incredibly "anomalous" masterpiece, Tolstoy's last work of fiction, Hadji Murat (1896-1904), renders the life and death of the legendary Avari warrior, Hadji Murat. The novella is aesthetically stunning and surprisingly devoid of Tolstoy's opinionated authorial voice. With its ideologically muted nature, Hadji Murat has provoked "indecision and controversy" among critics, particularly since it impartially narrates phenomena the mora…
Bureaucracy of Dreams
Ani Kokobobo addresses the novel The Palace of Dreams (1981) by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, with a particular focus on the larger significance of the novel's dream project. Through fictional processes of dream collection, selection, and interpretation, Kadare meditates on two twentieth-century movements that either overtly or covertly incorporated dreams in their ideological platforms: surrealism and socialism. Kokobobo posits that as a po…
Unfinished Portrait of a Country
This book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the past, present, and future of Albania. Prifti offers portraits of prominent Albanians throughout history, including Mother Teresa and Fan S. Noli, former president of Albania, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church in America. He also examines crucial aspects of Albanian politics, economics, as well as the current situation in the Albanian reigion of Kosovo. In his discussions of Albanian cultu…
Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Bureaucracy of Dreams
Ani Kokobobo addresses the novel The Palace of Dreams (1981) by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, with a particular focus on the larger significance of the novel's dream project. Through fictional processes of dream collection, selection, and interpretation, Kadare meditates on two twentieth-century movements that either overtly or covertly incorporated dreams in their ideological platforms: surrealism and socialism. Kokobobo posits that as a po…
The Travelogue and the Ode—Aleksandr Radishchev's Polemic with the Court Ode in Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu
In the oft‐quoted dedication of his Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu , Aleksandr Radishchev's narrator highlights the need to “look straight” and attributes mankind's misery to obscured vision. He sets on his journey in an effort restore proper visual perception to his people. Yet the manner in which the journey can enable this restoration is less than clear. In fact, this issue has prompted several recent reevaluations of vision in the travel…
Tolstoy's Enigmatic Final Hero
Considered an incredibly "anomalous" masterpiece, Tolstoy's last work of fiction, Hadji Murat (1896-1904), renders the life and death of the legendary Avari warrior, Hadji Murat. The novella is aesthetically stunning and surprisingly devoid of Tolstoy's opinionated authorial voice. With its ideologically muted nature, Hadji Murat has provoked "indecision and controversy" among critics, particularly since it impartially narrates phenomena the mora…
Dead Storms and Literature's New Horizon
During the Neustadt Prize ceremony on October 21, 2020, David Bellos read the English-language version of Kadare's prize lecture to a worldwide Zoom audience
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Reading Dostoevsky Now, from the Margins
Reading Dostoevsky Now, from the Margins Ani Kokobobo (bio) Against increasing calls to "cancel" Dostoevsky due to the Russian nationalism espoused in his writings, Ani Kokobobo chooses to hold on to a Dostoevsky of the margins, a Dostoevsky who tests us ethically when we rationalize horrible means to justify an imagined greater good. As a scholar and reader of literature, I have never seen books as divorced from the present or from our subjectiv…
Art (6 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (2 works) · Ideology (2 works)