Recategorising an Arctic Hero: Entitlement and (Un)Tellability in a Soviet Drama
This article discusses the claims of entitlement and processes of rendering a story tellable in early twentieth-century Soviet Union through a case study of the play Vavlyo Nyenyangg. The play was co-authored by Ivan Nogo and linguist Grigori Verbov in the context of the creation of a cultural and p...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/84285 2023-05-15T15:06:28+02:00 Recategorising an Arctic Hero: Entitlement and (Un)Tellability in a Soviet Drama Lukin, Karina 2020-06-25 application/pdf https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/article/view/84285 https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v47i1.84285 eng eng Ethnos ry https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/article/view/84285/54363 https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/article/view/84285 doi:10.23991/ef.v47i1.84285 Copyright (c) 2020 Karina Lukin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC Ethnologia Fennica; Vol 47 No 1 (2020): Cultural Commons; 33-56 Ethnologia Fennica; Vol 47 Nro 1 (2020): Cultural Commons; 33-56 2489-4982 0355-1776 entitlement tellability Nenets indigenous literature Soviet Union info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2020 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v47i1.84285 2020-07-01T22:45:28Z This article discusses the claims of entitlement and processes of rendering a story tellable in early twentieth-century Soviet Union through a case study of the play Vavlyo Nyenyangg. The play was co-authored by Ivan Nogo and linguist Grigori Verbov in the context of the creation of a cultural and political intelligentsia, as well as a literature and other modern institutions, for Nenets, an indigenous community living in northern Russia and Western Siberia. In analysing the manuscripts of the play, the alterations made to it and its final, published version, the article argues that Nenets writers collaborated with their Russian assistants by combining two different fields, the vernacular Nenets and the institutionalised socialist models, to create original textual products that both followed the socialist requirements and alluded to the Nenets oral narration. Shared knowledge, called either ‘folklore’ or ‘oral history’, was used as an entitlement for the indigenous writers to tell stories that were rendered tellable in the socialist context through choices in vocabulary and plot structure. These choices produced stories that erased some local contents, structures and interpretations but simultaneously produced new ones. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic nenets Siberia Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Arctic Ethnologia Fennica 47 1 33 56 |
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This article discusses the claims of entitlement and processes of rendering a story tellable in early twentieth-century Soviet Union through a case study of the play Vavlyo Nyenyangg. The play was co-authored by Ivan Nogo and linguist Grigori Verbov in the context of the creation of a cultural and political intelligentsia, as well as a literature and other modern institutions, for Nenets, an indigenous community living in northern Russia and Western Siberia. In analysing the manuscripts of the play, the alterations made to it and its final, published version, the article argues that Nenets writers collaborated with their Russian assistants by combining two different fields, the vernacular Nenets and the institutionalised socialist models, to create original textual products that both followed the socialist requirements and alluded to the Nenets oral narration. Shared knowledge, called either ‘folklore’ or ‘oral history’, was used as an entitlement for the indigenous writers to tell stories that were rendered tellable in the socialist context through choices in vocabulary and plot structure. These choices produced stories that erased some local contents, structures and interpretations but simultaneously produced new ones. |
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Recategorising an Arctic Hero: Entitlement and (Un)Tellability in a Soviet Drama |
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