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A historical novelist explores the Secret History of the Mongols.
If the Secret History is a communal memoir, who told its secrets? Did Temujin — Chinggis Khan — tell his own story? Whose voices are heard within the text?
Voices from the Twelfth-Century Steppe has two strands. It practices interpretation of the Secret History of the Mongols from an oral and written arts standpoint ('literary') — how does this differ from historical investigation? It exhibits ways a historical novelist engages with a primary source — how does this tend to differ from a historian?
'Voices' is a case study in close source work by a creative writer. Entangled with this, a case is made for arts criticism of the Secret History. Its artistry is integral to its sense.
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