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Феномен русской прозы: писатели – референты иноэтнокультуры
The Russian prose phenomenon: writers – spokesmen for different ethnic cultures

Author(s): Èleonora Shafranskaja
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary literature borders don't agree with the formal state borders. The Russian literature is an example of this. Its ethnic index doesn't correspond either with a writer's residence or his citizenship. Belonging to the Russian literature is defined by the Russian language. Some of non-Russian ethnic writers win awards for their contribution to the Russian literature. Thus any author writing in Russian is a Russian writer. By origin and nurture D. Rubina, T. Pulatov, S. Aflatuni, CH. Aytmatov, A. Volos et al. belong to the Russian culture as well as to a non-Russian one. Being in the sphere of folk and family mythology, memories, traditions, ethnic cooking, religious myths, these writers create their non-Russian ethnic works in Russian. They appear as commentators, interpreters, mediators between two mentalities: the own and the non-own, acting as spokesmen for non-Russian ethnic culture, or as translators between different mentalities, different ethnic values.

  • Issue Year: 36/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 257-268
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian