PRIVĀTĀS VĒSTURES STĀSTS GUNTAS ŠNIPKES DZEJĀ. (Latvian)
In: Literature & Culture: Process, Interaction, Problems / Literatūra un Kultūra: Process, Mijiedarbība, Problēmas, 2021, Heft 21, S. 110-125
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The article deals with the process of poetry creation of Gunta Snipke, a poet and professional architect from Liepāja. The research aims to establish and evaluate the autobiographical elements in Snipke's poetry, analyse the proportion of the poet's biography in it, which forms the narrative of the private history (life story), by highlighting it as the central and definitive element of life writing characterised by topics related to the course of life, referentiality of language, and authenticity of the self. The phenomenon of memory is especially emphasised. It reveals the dimension of time in Snipke's poetry, allowing to speak not only about individual but also cultural memory initiated by the emphasis on particular geographical places related to personal life experience and topographical details and family ties. The attention is focused on a woman's life story and feminine language, which becomes the main narrator of the past, recording her family history into wider historical contexts, injecting individual experiences into a layer of collective experience. The lyrical I by the author/woman forms by a fusion of many expressions/roles of feminine identity - those of a daughter, mother, grandmother, lover, professional architect, Latvian, Liepaja's native, and at the same time, the identity of a woman as a broad-spectrum cultural European, thus strongly signalling about the confrontation and interaction of the local and global elements. The presence of the autobiographical elements and artistic capacity of all three poetry collections by Snipke - A Child Entered (... bērns ienāca..., 1995), ... And the Sea (... un jūra, 2008), Roads (Ceļi, 2018) - is analysed. The last collection has been analysed most thoroughly as it conceptually, in terms of composition and themes, reveals the style of life writing, highlighting the trajectory of a particular, factual path of life and mapping the geographical pointers by using vivid details, artefacts, and testimony as reference to "little narratives" based on personal experience. The first two poetry collections are contextually seen as complementary texts that record these little narratives into a wider story of community experience synthesising historical and fictional truth. The latter aspect is especially topical and fascinating for a story written in poetry form. The theoretical and methodological framework of the study includes the biographical approach, feminist theory, ideas of postcolonialism and new historicism, and aspects of cultural memory research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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PRIVĀTĀS VĒSTURES STĀSTS GUNTAS ŠNIPKES DZEJĀ. (Latvian)
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Zeitschrift: | Literature & Culture: Process, Interaction, Problems / Literatūra un Kultūra: Process, Mijiedarbība, Problēmas, 2021, Heft 21, S. 110-125 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2243-6960 (print) |
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