„SAVĒJAIS" UN „SVEŠAIS" HARIJA SKUJAS DZEJĀ: REPRESĒTĀ PIEREDZE. (Latvian)
In: Cultural Studies / Kultūras Studijas, Jg. 13 (2021), S. 123-131
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The article deals with the turning points in the life and creative work of the Soviettime poet Harijs Skuja (1927-1984), particularly by highlighting the impact of the repressive totalitarian regime in the creative biography of the poet. The article aims to assess the different levels of autobiographical representation in Skuja's poetry, highlighting interaction and confrontation between the categories "own" and "strange". The assessment is based on new historicism's theoretical view that literary texts are not autonomous but determined by the historical situation; thus, the six poetry collections published during the Soviet time ("Pavasara ceļi" (Spring Roads, 1963), "Zeme, piederu tev" (Earth, I Belong to You, 1970), "Pavasara poēmas turpinājums" (Continuation of Spring Poem, 1974), "Virs kalnu pārejām" (Above the Mountain Passes, 1977), "Kosmeja vējos" (Cosmos Flower in Winds, 1981), "Mans ķeizargrieziens" (My Caesarean Section, 1984)), and a collection published posthumously in the postSovietperiod "Kāvu gaisma" (Northern Lights, 1990) have been examined and analysed in parallels and mutual interaction. The latter can be regarded as a lyrical diary of the time in deportation. It contains an artistically strong expression of the truth and memories, based on precise household details, biographical facts, age-characterising episodes documented by an eyewitness of totalitarian repressions. The analysis of repressed identity reveals the marking of historical memory experience, which highlights the distinct intersections of personal and collective memory determined by objective and subjective circumstances. Using the theoretical guidelines of new historicism, postcolonialism, and biographical approach in the interpretation of a literary text, a new reading of Skuja's poetry published in the Soviet time is possible. An extension of the context of the exact historical situation and the Soviet ideology and the level of interpretation perceived in the subtext of poetry reveals the implied information about the complex peripeteia of the author's life, sheds light on the ideological prints in literature and culture, namely a refined mechanism of an ideological instrument in the supervision of the creative process, turning the artist into a self-censor, a self-limiting entity regarding the artistic truth. Assessing the creative biography of the poet, influenced by historical political circumstances of the era, based on the interaction between the categories of "own" and "strange", the identity of the poet can be defined in two ways: 1) his own among the strangers (years spent in custody and deportation in Northern Russia (1948-1956)) and 2) the stranger among his own (time after his return - a self-colonisation process defined by ideological dictate (1956-1984)). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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„SAVĒJAIS" UN „SVEŠAIS" HARIJA SKUJAS DZEJĀ: REPRESĒTĀ PIEREDZE. (Latvian)
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Kuduma, Anda |
Zeitschrift: | Cultural Studies / Kultūras Studijas, Jg. 13 (2021), S. 123-131 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1691-6026 (print) |
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