Shara Zhienkulova as the “femina Sovietica”. Emanicipation in Stalinist Kazakhstan
Kassymova D. Teleuova E.
2021Sodertorn University Centre for Baltic and East European Studies
Baltic Worlds
2021#14Issue 1-269 - 86 pp.
This article explores the potential of the Kazakh model woman narrative in the context of the socio-cultural perspectives of Stalinism in traditional oriental societies. In her well-written memoirs. Shara Zhienkulova, founder of the Kazakh dance school, reconstructs personal accounts of the Bolshevik cultural modernization project, through the introduction of new cultural practices and her own hard-won battle for a place in the new Soviet culture. We argue here that while her body served the regime as a kinesthetic mediator for the projected ideological imperatives to be oriented on European style-in the Soviet manner- her soul and mind remained (as containers of personal and ethnic memory) ethnic Kazakh in natur& Through her memoirs Shara Zhienkulova intended to leave not only a name but also a voice in the Kazakh culture, recounting the inner world and thoughts of subaltern women.
cultural revolution , new Soviet women , Shara Zhienkulova. Kazakhstan. Stalinism
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