Rattling Sabres and Evil Intruders: The Border, Heroes and Border-crossers in Panfennist and Soviet Socialist Realist Literature
In this article I analyse Russian and Soviet Karelian literary texts written in Finnish at the time and in the style of socialist realism, and Finnish poems, songs and novels of the same era, proposing the idea of a ‘Greater-Finland’. I turned my attention to the question of how the depiction, const...
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ftlinkoepuojs:oai:ojs.bibl.liu.se:article/2134 2023-05-15T17:00:18+02:00 Rattling Sabres and Evil Intruders: The Border, Heroes and Border-crossers in Panfennist and Soviet Socialist Realist Literature Musäus, Thekla 2014-12-15 application/pdf https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2134 https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.14611165 eng eng Linköping University Elecronic Press https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2134/1498 https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/2134 doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.14611165 Copyright (c) 2014 Musäus https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ CC-BY-NC Culture Unbound; Vol. 6 No. 6 (2014): Writing at Borders; 1165-1181 Culture Unbound; Vol 6 Nr 6 (2014): Writing at Borders; 1165-1181 2000-1525 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1466 Topographical and symbolic borders literary rhetorics socialist realism panfennist ideology Stalinism Karelia info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftlinkoepuojs https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.14611165 https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1466 2022-08-30T10:30:34Z In this article I analyse Russian and Soviet Karelian literary texts written in Finnish at the time and in the style of socialist realism, and Finnish poems, songs and novels of the same era, proposing the idea of a ‘Greater-Finland’. I turned my attention to the question of how the depiction, construction and use of borders is handled in the respective texts, and look to determine whether the opposed ideologies of Soviet Communism and Panfennism led to similar or different artificial results. This analysis proves that the texts of the two ideologies generally draw strict distinctions between the ‘heroes’ of their own side and the bad ‘Others’. Only the heroes of the plot are able to either cross borders or to establish new ones. While in the Soviet texts opponents of Soviet society inside the Soviet Union are depicted as foreign and separated through ideological, symbolic and topographical borders, the Karelians in the Finnish texts are suspected as a hybrid people, spoiled by their contact with the evil Russians. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* karelian karelians Linköping University Electronic Press Culture Unbound 6 6 1165 1181 |
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In this article I analyse Russian and Soviet Karelian literary texts written in Finnish at the time and in the style of socialist realism, and Finnish poems, songs and novels of the same era, proposing the idea of a ‘Greater-Finland’. I turned my attention to the question of how the depiction, construction and use of borders is handled in the respective texts, and look to determine whether the opposed ideologies of Soviet Communism and Panfennism led to similar or different artificial results. This analysis proves that the texts of the two ideologies generally draw strict distinctions between the ‘heroes’ of their own side and the bad ‘Others’. Only the heroes of the plot are able to either cross borders or to establish new ones. While in the Soviet texts opponents of Soviet society inside the Soviet Union are depicted as foreign and separated through ideological, symbolic and topographical borders, the Karelians in the Finnish texts are suspected as a hybrid people, spoiled by their contact with the evil Russians. |
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Rattling Sabres and Evil Intruders: The Border, Heroes and Border-crossers in Panfennist and Soviet Socialist Realist Literature |
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Rattling Sabres and Evil Intruders: The Border, Heroes and Border-crossers in Panfennist and Soviet Socialist Realist Literature |
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