Misplacedness as Near-Death Experience: A Jonah Between the Ottomans and the Soviets (Yavorov, Zarkin and Their Armenian Collocutors)
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie March 19, 2026 Yordan Lyutskanov
In this article I rationalise my historical intuition that perceptible commonalities, evolution and intentionality between two groups of texts (four poems by Peyo Yavorov and three by Georgi Zarkin) could be indicative of a Soviet-Ottoman contact zone. Moreover, I discuss my theoretical intuition that the basically spatialising concept of “contact zone” can refer to temporality and, in...