During the totalitarian era (1944–1991), urban space was used as an “arena” in which to demonstrate the absolute power of the communist regime. Some important structures were built; others were destroyed; new names were given to streets or even cities, to create a new identity for the urban areas. Urban locations (the Pyramid of Enver Hoxha, the Dajti hotel, the building of the Central Committee, etc.), became symbols of fear and admiration, because of their strong association with the supreme political power. Contemporary novels such as Ferri i çarë (The Hell is Broken), Në kohën e britmës (In the Time of the Scream) by Visar Zhiti, The Successor, The Daughter of Agamemnon by Ismail Kadare, Loja, shembja e qiellit (The Game, the Fall of the Sky), etc., make urban places the epicenter of a dramatic relationship between man and the totalitarian power. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the correlation between transformations that happened in urban spaces during the communist era (1945–1990) and the implementation of the ideological project of the “New Man”. A thorough text analysis of Albanian novels is used to interpret the re-designation of the cities, as part of a political program, by which urban landscapes, literature, and art were transformed into mere ideological means through which the communist new word was proclaimed. These transformations became symbolic signs of a tragic time, where man became God (in the new atheist context), and the urban space became the temple, and where fear and obedience were sowed together with fake narratives related to urban identity.
在极权主义时代(1944-1991)，城市空间被用作展示共产主义政权绝对权力的“竞技场”。建造了一些重要的建筑物;其他人被摧毁;街道甚至城市都被赋予了新的名字，为城市地区创造了新的身份。城市地点(Enver Hoxha金字塔、Dajti酒店、中央委员会大楼等)成为恐惧和钦佩的象征，因为它们与最高政治权力有很强的联系。维萨·齐提的《地狱破裂》çarë、《呐喊的时代》Në kohën e britmës、伊斯梅尔·卡达雷的《继承者》、《阿伽门农的女儿》、《游戏》、《天空的坠落》等当代小说将城市场所变成了人与极权主义权力之间戏剧性关系的中心。本文的主要目的是分析共产主义时代(1945-1990)城市空间发生的变化与“新人”意识形态项目的实施之间的相关性。通过对阿尔巴尼亚小说的全面文本分析来解释城市的重新命名，作为政治计划的一部分，城市景观，文学和艺术被转变为纯粹的意识形态手段，通过这种方式，共产主义的新词被宣布。这些转变成为一个悲剧时代的象征性标志，在那里，人成为了上帝(在新的无神论背景下)，城市空间成为了寺庙，在那里，恐惧和服从与与城市身份相关的虚假叙事一起被播种。
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This paper addresses the group of works of contemporary Ukrainian literature in which the narrators’ reminiscences about urban areas directly relate to the formation of a national identity. In the Ukrainian fiction of the last two decades, the urban identity of the Soviet period is mainly shown as a specific ideologically caused type of identity, intended to replace or blur the national and the local identities. Marc Augé’s anthropological theory, which is based on the opposition of “places” and “non-places”, underlies the theoretical framework for this study. In the analyzed literary works, non-places as transitional areas, devoid of historicity and identity, are viewed as predominating over places and represented by either communal or private locations. Protagonists’ memories of communal non-places, – such as schools, hospitals, grocery stores, places of commemoration, monuments and administrative buildings, – often emphasize these characters’ feelings of alienation and misery in urban space. Communal non-places are also depicted in fiction as a means for authorities to exert ideological influence on citizens in order to restore the totalitarian regime (as is shown in the novel (Rivne / Rovno (The Wall) by Oleksandr Irvanets). Fiction depicting memories of private places also acquire non-place characteristics, such as the private apartment of the Lvivan Cilycks’ family in Victoria Amelina’s novel Dom’s Dream Kingdom. The transformation of the private area into a non-place demonstrates the danger of ignoring one’s own history, which leads to a loss of urban and national identity and the repetition of historical mistakes made by previous generations.
本文论述了一组当代乌克兰文学作品，其中叙述者对城市地区的回忆直接关系到民族认同的形成。在过去二十年的乌克兰小说中，苏联时期的城市身份主要表现为一种特定的意识形态导致的身份类型，旨在取代或模糊民族和地方身份。以“地点”与“非地点”对立为基础的马克·奥格罗人类学理论奠定了本研究的理论框架。在被分析的文学作品中，非场所作为过渡区域，缺乏历史性和身份，被视为主导于场所，并由公共或私人场所代表。主人公对公共非场所的记忆，如学校、医院、杂货店、纪念场所、纪念碑和行政大楼，往往强调这些人物在城市空间中的疏离感和痛苦感。公共非场所在小说中也被描述为当局对公民施加意识形态影响以恢复极权主义政权的手段(正如Oleksandr Irvanets的小说《Rivne / Rovno (the Wall)》所示)。描写私人场所记忆的小说也具有非场所特征，比如维多利亚·阿梅利娜的小说《Dom’s Dream Kingdom》中Lvivan cilcyks一家的私人公寓。将私人区域转变为非场所表明了忽视自身历史的危险，这会导致城市和国家身份的丧失，并重复前几代人所犯的历史错误。
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Sonja Novak, Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Asma Mehan, Sílvia Quinteiro
This volume aimed to highlight narrative identities of European cities or city neighbourhoods that have been overlooked, such as mid-sized cities. These cities are neither small towns nor metropolises, cities that are now unveiling their appeal or specificity. The present special issue thus covers a range of representations of cities. The articles investigate more systematically how different texts deal with various cities from different experiential and fictional perspectives. The issue covers the geographical scope across Europe, from east to west or vice versa, as well as a range of different works of national literature(s), but with a clear emphasis on mid-sized European cities that have until now been deemed as lesser-known, secondary, peripheral, ‘other’ cities that are in the focus of the research of the COST project Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City, within which this journal issue is being published.
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This issue of the Journal of Narrative and Language Studies: On the Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature, besides the editorial cooperation between Working Group 2 members, reverberates with our action themes and concerns. In addition to focusing on mid-size European cities, its content also conjures up the hypothetical incidence of the centre as an idea, even in peripheral realities. Reading the articles, although not surprising under the current world state of affairs, we acknowledge the presence and dominance of the socio-politics over other dimensions. The narratives studied and presented here are no love stories or comic reliefs. Nonetheless, they give us a critical, sharp and relevant reading on the value of local urban narratives and further developments.
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This paper reflects on the latest poem published by the Portuguese author Alberto Pimenta, Ilhíada. Even if it creates an explicit dialogue with the poem attributed to Homer, the Iliad, already from the title, it can be seen that Ilhíada is the polar opposite of the Homeric text. The story Alberto Pimenta introduces us to is a tale of the ilhas, an idiosyncratic urban organisation from the city of Porto (Portugal), usually linked to the poorest sectors of the population. As soon as the city became an important tourist destination and “the imaginal engineering” (Hiernaux, 2012) started to create a tourist hotspot narration, successive administrations began to find these ilhas a problem that had to be dealt with. In the poem, the lyrical voice remembers the everyday life that existed before their inhabitants began to be besieged by the building companies. We move, then, from the tales of Troy, an important urban centre of ancient times where heroes fight in a war, to the margins of Porto, where common people just try to live their everyday lives. In this essay, I will argue that the location in which Pimenta chooses to set this story – with the excluded ones, the “subalterns” (Spivak 1985) – challenges the categories of “city”, “hero”, “History” and even “poetry”. To that effect, I will use a comparative perspective that will allow me to uncover the main differences between the two texts.
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This paper analyzes the relationship between Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical writing and the external suburban space of Cergy-Pontoise in two memoirs: Exteriors (1993/2021) and Things Seen (2000/2010). The paper argues that in Exteriors and Things Seen, Ernaux’s individual experience intertwines with the exterior space of the town. The critical exploration of the texts through the prisms of humanistic geography, spatial theory, and feminist spatial theory highlights how the author’s spatial and biographical engagement with the new town operates in a twofold way. On the one hand, it works as a tool contributing to the casting of the identity of place. On the other, it results in an exchange configuring the external suburban dimension as a powerful source of the author’s internal processes of self-investigation, meaning-making, and memory recollection. By shedding light on the points of intersection between life and place, experience and exteriors, the paper ultimately suggests that the place identity of Cergy-Pontoise is crafted by and through Ernaux’s texts and that, concurrently, the suburban space of the new town informs Ernaux’s experience, individuality, and memory. The paper concludes by reflecting on the spatial notion of exteriority as a stylistic device informing Ernaux’s narrative.
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This paper references two texts from contemporary city writers: Die Stadt ist nicht die Stadt, by Juliana Kálnay (2019), and Graz, Alexanderplatz, by Barbara Marković (2012). They are analysed in regard to how the authors present the cities they visit and the type of literary images of the cities they develop. The analysis of Kálnay’s text focuses on how she interweaves past and present of the city and interconnects both through a water motif. Furthermore, intertextual strategies evident through her referencing Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities are investigated. Marković’s Graz, Alexanderplatz is analysed according to its twofold structure of copied city text on the one side (of the double page) and commented city text and urban experiences on the other. Moreover, how far the text is connected to Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz is briefly discussed. It is shown that both authors use experimental strategies to structure their texts and grasp ‘their’ cities but that both also subliminally reflect on whether it is actually possible to present the ‘real’ city, and how far the attempts must remain cut-outs of urbanity, dependent on perspective, time and place.
本文引用了当代城市作家的两篇文章:Juliana Kálnay(2019)的《城市之夜》(Die Stadt ist night Die Stadt)和Barbara markoviki的《格拉茨，亚历山大广场》(2012)。分析了作者如何呈现他们所访问的城市以及他们所开发的城市的文学形象类型。对Kálnay文本的分析侧重于她如何将城市的过去和现在交织在一起，并通过水的主题将两者联系起来。此外，通过引用伊塔洛·卡尔维诺的《看不见的城市》，对互文策略进行了研究。根据马尔科维奇的《格拉茨，亚历山大广场》的双重结构，一面(双页)复制城市文本，另一面(双页)评论城市文本和城市经验。此外，简要讨论了文本与阿尔弗雷德Döblin的柏林亚历山大广场的联系程度。研究表明，两位作者都使用实验策略来构建他们的文本并把握“他们的”城市，但他们也都下意识地反思是否有可能呈现“真实”的城市，以及这些尝试必须在多大程度上保持对城市的切断，这取决于视角、时间和地点。
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Urban space is a specific public space that society creates and lives in. Mental states and material conditions are spatially regrouped in different historical phases and rewritten each time. The topic of this research is to determine the semantic influence of spatial experiences and memories on the construction of narrative identity. Urban novels by two Georgian authors – The Southern Elephant by Archil Kikodze and Zinka Adamiani by Ana Samadashvili-Kordzaia – were selected as research objects. These primary sources were analysed within the following methodological framework: 1. the space semantics of Juri Lotman, 2. Pierre Nora’s sites of memory, and 3. Aleida Assmann’s forms of forgetting. Using these theoretical approaches, it was possible to determine the role of spatial concepts in the construction of narrative identity, and the impact of changes in historical, social, economic, cultural, and worldview conditions on narrative identities constructed in the text.
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Indigenous communities across the world and, more specifically, those of the Global South, are especially vulnerable to the effects of human-induced climate change. Standing at the crossroads of modernity and ancestral life, many communities face overwhelming losses of biocultural traditions along with their rightful homelands. Such loss has led to anxiety among communities firmly rooted in particular places. As a form of resistance to pervasive capitalist forces benefiting from the degradation of the environment, climate poetry offers an alternative response for voicing concerns in the form of protesting ecological abuses while allaying the anxiety of solastalgic disruption (McDougall et al., 2022, pp. 26–27). This article examines the poetic imagination of Marshall Islands writer and activist Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner by linking her work to the concepts of solastalgia and resilience. Representative of current Indigenous concerns over climate change and biocultural loss, Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s poetry presents a powerful voice from a postcolonial nation located in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines. Her poetry exudes a sense of solastalgia in response to the ecologically destructive influence of powerful Western nations, in general, and the United States, in particular, on the Marshall Islands. Narrativizing the concept of solastalgia, Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s poetry critiques human-driven ecological ruination and voices concern about the impacts of climate change on island nations. Her work, furthermore, underscores that postcolonial states, such as the Marshall Islands, must negotiate conflicting relationships with the forces of modernity that underlie ecologically detrimental choices and behaviors. The article thus aims to extend the concept of solastalgia to Indigenous communities through an analysis of Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s work.
世界各地的土著社区，特别是全球南方的土著社区，特别容易受到人为引起的气候变化的影响。站在现代和祖先生活的十字路口，许多社区面临着生物文化传统及其合法家园的严重丧失。这种损失导致了扎根于特定地区的社区的焦虑。作为对从环境退化中获益的无处不在的资本主义力量的一种抵抗形式，气候诗歌提供了另一种回应，以抗议生态滥用的形式表达关注，同时减轻对太阳能破坏的焦虑(McDougall et al.， 2022, pp. 26-27)。本文通过将马绍尔群岛作家和活动家Kathy Jetn ' il-Kijiner的作品与solastalgia和resilience的概念联系起来，研究了她的诗意想象力。jen ā il-Kijiner的诗歌代表了当前土著对气候变化和生物文化丧失的关注，呈现了一个位于夏威夷和菲律宾之间太平洋上的后殖民国家的强大声音。她的诗歌散发出一种太阳痛的感觉，以回应强大的西方国家，特别是美国对马绍尔群岛的生态破坏影响。jen ā il-Kijiner的诗歌通过对“太阳痛”概念的叙述，批评了人类驱动的生态破坏，并表达了对气候变化对岛国影响的担忧。此外，她的作品强调，后殖民国家，如马绍尔群岛，必须与现代力量谈判冲突的关系，这是生态有害的选择和行为的基础。因此，本文旨在通过对Jetn ' il-Kijiner的工作的分析，将solastalgia的概念扩展到土著社区。
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This paper reads Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People (2007) for its representation of the impasse that develops in the wake of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984) as its victims wait endlessly for justice. I examine the narrative form that the impasse takes in the novel, detailing how the stagnancy and frustration of the impasse shape the novel’s narrative movement. I track the different negotiations between optimism and cynicism that shape people’s attachment to justice in the novel’s world. The tensions and correlations between these modes of cynicism and optimism serve to trace the affective and political contours of the impasse while offering a critique of the structural impossibilities of movement. I examine how two temporalities—the suspended time of the impasse and the toxic temporality of the poisons—intersect in the novel. At the intersection between the two is the impasse of the Anthropocene.
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