Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature
This article examines Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia on the Russian–Finnish national borderland from the 1940s until the 1970s. It focuses on the concepts of the non-Russian language space and border that are constructed and studied in the context of three novels: Iira (1947), Tiny W...
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ftlinkoepuojs:oai:ojs.bibl.liu.se:article/2131 2023-05-15T17:01:29+02:00 Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature Kurki, Tuulikki 2014-12-15 application/pdf https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2131 https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1461095 eng eng Linköping University Elecronic Press https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2131/1495 https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2131 doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1461095 Copyright (c) 2014 Kurki https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ CC-BY-NC Culture Unbound; Vol. 6 No. 6 (2014): Writing at Borders; 1095-1121 Culture Unbound; Vol 6 Nr 6 (2014): Writing at Borders; 1095-1121 2000-1525 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1466 Finnish language literature Soviet Karelia Russian Karelia border space info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftlinkoepuojs https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1461095 https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1466 2022-08-30T10:30:34Z This article examines Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia on the Russian–Finnish national borderland from the 1940s until the 1970s. It focuses on the concepts of the non-Russian language space and border that are constructed and studied in the context of three novels: Iira (1947), Tiny White Bird (1961), and We Karelians (1971). The article claims that the non-Russian language space and the national border started to be understood differently from the official degrees dictated by Moscow, as found in literature already from the late 1950s and early 1960s. From the 1950s onwards, the historical, linguistic, and cultural roots across the national border and the Finnish population were allowed to be recognized in literature. Furthermore, this article claims that in the 1970s, literature was able to represent such regional history, and also the closeness and permeability of the national border that influenced the lives of the Soviet Karelian non-Russian speaking population and their identity formation. This led to different ideas of the national border, in which the border and its functions and meanings became gradually more multi-voiced, ambivalent and controversial, in comparison to the conceptualization of the border as presenting a strict, impermeable boundary. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelian karelians Linköping University Electronic Press Culture Unbound 6 6 1095 1121 |
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This article examines Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia on the Russian–Finnish national borderland from the 1940s until the 1970s. It focuses on the concepts of the non-Russian language space and border that are constructed and studied in the context of three novels: Iira (1947), Tiny White Bird (1961), and We Karelians (1971). The article claims that the non-Russian language space and the national border started to be understood differently from the official degrees dictated by Moscow, as found in literature already from the late 1950s and early 1960s. From the 1950s onwards, the historical, linguistic, and cultural roots across the national border and the Finnish population were allowed to be recognized in literature. Furthermore, this article claims that in the 1970s, literature was able to represent such regional history, and also the closeness and permeability of the national border that influenced the lives of the Soviet Karelian non-Russian speaking population and their identity formation. This led to different ideas of the national border, in which the border and its functions and meanings became gradually more multi-voiced, ambivalent and controversial, in comparison to the conceptualization of the border as presenting a strict, impermeable boundary. |
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Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature |
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Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature |
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Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature |
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Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature |
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Non-Russian Language Space and Border in Russian Karelian Literature |
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non-russian language space and border in russian karelian literature |
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Linköping University Elecronic Press |
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https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2131 https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1461095 |
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Culture Unbound; Vol. 6 No. 6 (2014): Writing at Borders; 1095-1121 Culture Unbound; Vol 6 Nr 6 (2014): Writing at Borders; 1095-1121 2000-1525 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1466 |
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