Karostas ģeopolitiskās konstelācijas Andras Manfeldes romānā "Virsnieku sievas"
Geopolitical Constellations of Naval Port in Andras Manfelde’s Novel "Virsnieku sievas"

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is aimed at carrying out the geopolitical discourse analysis of a Soviet military naval port town Karosta. Through the perspective of semiotics, the author explores the Karosta topochrone constellations and performative practices in Andra Manfelde’s novel Virsnieku sievas (“Officers’ Wives”, 2017). The author focuses on the semiotics of infrastructure in a Soviet military town, as well as on topochrone elements (Karosta, Liepāja, Liepāja Karosta canal, rotating bridge, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral) in the mapping of critical geopolitics. Moreover, the geopolitical notions conditioned by the Cold War are examined: the notion of border and the narrative of submarines; impact of the geopolitical changes affected by totalitarianism on the social structures, identity and gender constellations of the local residents as well as the presence of Soviet military subjects in the occupied territories.

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