Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.4
Jūratė Levina
The inquiry formulates the fundamentals of the hermeneutics of narrative against the background of the history of reception of the work under examination, “The Drowned Girl” by Antanas Vienuolis, and draws on the relevant phenomenological descriptions and resources of structural analysis to foreground the operative mechanisms of closed society. Such mechanisms are foregrounded on three planes: (1) social, of the rules of relationships between people, which in the story constitute a hierarchal system of power relations modelled on the structure of the traditional family of the agricultural holding, (2) significative, comprising sense-making discourses (traditional customs and Christianity) whereby the culture, in this story, configures the world without transcending corporeally perceivable horizons of the actually lived present, and (3) anthropological, where sociocultural praxis and self-perception are grounded in the essentially unhuman nature which the culture tries to assimilate and erase without recognising its essential otherness. This threefold configuration emerges at the crossroad of the (author’s and reader’s) Modern and (the represented) archaic cultural self-conceptions, which produces the conflict of interpretations and facilitates both the cathartic effect and the ongoing process of sense-making. All these configurations are derived from the story’s poetics, simultaneously exposing the discursive operative mechanisms of closed society.
{"title":"Uždaros visuomenės fenomenologija Antano Vienuolio „Paskenduolėje“: antropologiniai profiliai","authors":"Jūratė Levina","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The inquiry formulates the fundamentals of the hermeneutics of narrative against the background of the history of reception of the work under examination, “The Drowned Girl” by Antanas Vienuolis, and draws on the relevant phenomenological descriptions and resources of structural analysis to foreground the operative mechanisms of closed society. Such mechanisms are foregrounded on three planes: (1) social, of the rules of relationships between people, which in the story constitute a hierarchal system of power relations modelled on the structure of the traditional family of the agricultural holding, (2) significative, comprising sense-making discourses (traditional customs and Christianity) whereby the culture, in this story, configures the world without transcending corporeally perceivable horizons of the actually lived present, and (3) anthropological, where sociocultural praxis and self-perception are grounded in the essentially unhuman nature which the culture tries to assimilate and erase without recognising its essential otherness. This threefold configuration emerges at the crossroad of the (author’s and reader’s) Modern and (the represented) archaic cultural self-conceptions, which produces the conflict of interpretations and facilitates both the cathartic effect and the ongoing process of sense-making. All these configurations are derived from the story’s poetics, simultaneously exposing the discursive operative mechanisms of closed society.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":" September","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.5
Neringa Klišienė
Short dramatic forms have become theatrical objects that are not easily identifiable. They act as a symbol of questioning the foundations of the conventional drama and a reflection on the dramatic genre in general. The article focuses on its ambiguous treatment and its actualisation in the context of contemporary Lithuanian dramaturgy. Micro-drama, miniature, one-shot drama, or ‘dramatized’ proverbs and sayings – these are the playwrights’ own denominations indicating a kind of tendency which emerged at the end of the 20th century, or, at least, the search for an original term or word. At the same time, however, this effort also signals the inscription of short-format dramatic texts into a certain mediatic area of literature and theatre, which is primarily seen as a sign of a certain bargain with the reader. The article does not look at short-form texts so much through the prism of theatrical evolution, but rather focuses on the mechanism of short-form writing. The question is whether (and how) such ‘mutations’ of dramatic writing maintain a specific theatrical mode of operation (the plot, the character etc.) when they enter the dynamic field of the short form. It is concluded that its mechanism is related to maximum cost-effectiveness and economy of language, and, through the reduction of the aforementioned dramatic triad, the function of the perceiver and his/her interpretative work are radicalised.
{"title":"Trumpoji draminė forma Kosto Ostrausko ir Juozo Erlicko kūryboje","authors":"Neringa Klišienė","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Short dramatic forms have become theatrical objects that are not easily identifiable. They act as a symbol of questioning the foundations of the conventional drama and a reflection on the dramatic genre in general. The article focuses on its ambiguous treatment and its actualisation in the context of contemporary Lithuanian dramaturgy. Micro-drama, miniature, one-shot drama, or ‘dramatized’ proverbs and sayings – these are the playwrights’ own denominations indicating a kind of tendency which emerged at the end of the 20th century, or, at least, the search for an original term or word. At the same time, however, this effort also signals the inscription of short-format dramatic texts into a certain mediatic area of literature and theatre, which is primarily seen as a sign of a certain bargain with the reader. The article does not look at short-form texts so much through the prism of theatrical evolution, but rather focuses on the mechanism of short-form writing. The question is whether (and how) such ‘mutations’ of dramatic writing maintain a specific theatrical mode of operation (the plot, the character etc.) when they enter the dynamic field of the short form. It is concluded that its mechanism is related to maximum cost-effectiveness and economy of language, and, through the reduction of the aforementioned dramatic triad, the function of the perceiver and his/her interpretative work are radicalised.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":" 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138962214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.1.6
Regimantas Tamošaitis
Lietuvių literatūros kanono dirbtuvės (XIX a. pabaiga–XX a. pirma pusė): kolektyvinė monografija. Sud. Viktorija Šeina. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2022, 635 p.
{"title":"Lietuvių literatūros kanono horizontai ir peripetijos","authors":"Regimantas Tamošaitis","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Lietuvių literatūros kanono dirbtuvės (XIX a. pabaiga–XX a. pirma pusė): kolektyvinė monografija. Sud. Viktorija Šeina. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2022, 635 p.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138961598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.3
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
The article examines the relationship between the generation of žemininkai (a literary movement; its name can be roughly translated as ‘representatives of land’) and the multi-ethnic Vilnius urban space since 1940, when the young representatives of this generation moved to the regained capital of Lithuania. Previous studies of their work stated that the experience of Vilnius had a significant impact on the cultural consciousness of this generation, but they never analysed the process of development of their ‘Vilnius identity’ and urban discourse, the meanings of the city that it emphasised, and the manifestations of the relationship with the multi-ethnic urban environment and the cultural ‘other’. The article presents socio-cultural analysis of the poetic and ego-documentary texts of four žemininkai authors who reflected on their Vilnius experience – Pranė Aukštikalnytė-Jokimaitienė, Kazys Bradūnas, Vytautas Mačernis, and Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, as well as the autobiographical testimonies of the literary scholar Vanda Zaborskaitė. Their initial attitudes seem to be similar – ethnocentric and monological, whereas the urban imagination is dominated by the axis of the Lithuanian-European cultural meanings, and the spatial images are distilled from the signs of the local cultural ‘Other’. However, as early as during the war years, and especially in the post-war period, a shift in the individual attitudes of some of the žemininkai is evident. The initial nationalistic schemes are loosened or questioned, and signs of the ‘Other’ are integrated, which is first of all manifested in their poetry and poetic prose about Vilnius.
{"title":"Žemininkai Vilniuje: santykis su daugiataučio miesto erdve","authors":"Mindaugas Kvietkauskas","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the relationship between the generation of žemininkai (a literary movement; its name can be roughly translated as ‘representatives of land’) and the multi-ethnic Vilnius urban space since 1940, when the young representatives of this generation moved to the regained capital of Lithuania. Previous studies of their work stated that the experience of Vilnius had a significant impact on the cultural consciousness of this generation, but they never analysed the process of development of their ‘Vilnius identity’ and urban discourse, the meanings of the city that it emphasised, and the manifestations of the relationship with the multi-ethnic urban environment and the cultural ‘other’. The article presents socio-cultural analysis of the poetic and ego-documentary texts of four žemininkai authors who reflected on their Vilnius experience – Pranė Aukštikalnytė-Jokimaitienė, Kazys Bradūnas, Vytautas Mačernis, and Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, as well as the autobiographical testimonies of the literary scholar Vanda Zaborskaitė. Their initial attitudes seem to be similar – ethnocentric and monological, whereas the urban imagination is dominated by the axis of the Lithuanian-European cultural meanings, and the spatial images are distilled from the signs of the local cultural ‘Other’. However, as early as during the war years, and especially in the post-war period, a shift in the individual attitudes of some of the žemininkai is evident. The initial nationalistic schemes are loosened or questioned, and signs of the ‘Other’ are integrated, which is first of all manifested in their poetry and poetic prose about Vilnius.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"49 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138976870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.5
Nassima Amirouche
{"title":"From the Other Shore: Exploring Home and Spatial Duality in Leïla Sebbar’s Le silence des rives (Silence on the Shores)","authors":"Nassima Amirouche","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"40 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.2
Žydronė Kolevinskienė
The article presents the years of work of the literary scholar, Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius University and at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute from 1966 to 1994. The famous activity of Vilnius University Department of Lithuanian Literature, along with the witch-hunt which led to Zaborskaitėʼs arrival at the Pedagogical Institute, is well-documented and extensively reflected upon. The main sources of the article are the minutes of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (later renamed as Lithuanian University of Education), as well as the published ego-documents of Vanda Zaborskaitė – her correspondence published in the book This is me, I write... (2019) and her diaries presented in the book Dienoraščiai 1941–2010 (2019). The archives of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature are stored in Vilnius, at the current Academy of Education of Vytautas Magnus University. Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs personal file in this archive contains 100 pages. The years of work at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, her knowledge of the school life, as well as her desire to reform the schools of the already independent Lithuania contributed significantly to Zaborskaitėʼs commitment to the work with teachers and schools, along with the involvement in Lithuanian education. The nearly three decades of the work of Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute reflect both her personal change and Lithuaniaʼs move towards freedom. Although, of course, in spirit, she remained first and foremost a representative of Vilnius University and the department which was being dismantled at the time. However, her firm position, exceptional competence, high criteria for literary education, uncompromising opinion, encouragement of critical thinking and confidence allowed the people of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of the Pedagogical Institute to unite for the future of the school, for the survival of the studies of the Lithuanian language because, for her, the studies of the Lithuanian language represent the consciousness of ‘Lithuanianness’. The issue raised in the article is reflected in the quote by Vanda Zaborskaitė in the title: “to go beyond the boundaries of what is painful.” The author of the article is interested in what kind of boundaries Vanda Zaborskaitė crossed, and how she did that. Are all boundaries crossed? And how does the (non-)crossing of boundaries create new boundary situations?
{"title":"„Peržengti kaustančias ribas...“: keli Vandos Zaborskaitės biografijos papildymai","authors":"Žydronė Kolevinskienė","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the years of work of the literary scholar, Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius University and at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute from 1966 to 1994. The famous activity of Vilnius University Department of Lithuanian Literature, along with the witch-hunt which led to Zaborskaitėʼs arrival at the Pedagogical Institute, is well-documented and extensively reflected upon. The main sources of the article are the minutes of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (later renamed as Lithuanian University of Education), as well as the published ego-documents of Vanda Zaborskaitė – her correspondence published in the book This is me, I write... (2019) and her diaries presented in the book Dienoraščiai 1941–2010 (2019). The archives of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature are stored in Vilnius, at the current Academy of Education of Vytautas Magnus University. Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs personal file in this archive contains 100 pages. The years of work at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, her knowledge of the school life, as well as her desire to reform the schools of the already independent Lithuania contributed significantly to Zaborskaitėʼs commitment to the work with teachers and schools, along with the involvement in Lithuanian education. The nearly three decades of the work of Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute reflect both her personal change and Lithuaniaʼs move towards freedom. Although, of course, in spirit, she remained first and foremost a representative of Vilnius University and the department which was being dismantled at the time. However, her firm position, exceptional competence, high criteria for literary education, uncompromising opinion, encouragement of critical thinking and confidence allowed the people of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of the Pedagogical Institute to unite for the future of the school, for the survival of the studies of the Lithuanian language because, for her, the studies of the Lithuanian language represent the consciousness of ‘Lithuanianness’. The issue raised in the article is reflected in the quote by Vanda Zaborskaitė in the title: “to go beyond the boundaries of what is painful.” The author of the article is interested in what kind of boundaries Vanda Zaborskaitė crossed, and how she did that. Are all boundaries crossed? And how does the (non-)crossing of boundaries create new boundary situations?","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"10 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138977094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.1
Dalia Čiočytė
Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922–2010) was a famous literary critic and the author of a fundamental monograph about the prominent Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (Maironis, 1968, 1987). Vanda Zaborskaitė wrote during the period of Soviet occupation, when Marxist criticism was obligatory. She used the sociological method as interpreted by Marxism, but she never accepted its philosophical determinism. She considered it important to put a literary work in the contextual frame of the literary history; however, she did not accept the view according to which literature is ruled by the laws of the social and cultural history. The philosophical position of Vanda Zaborskaitė was modernisation of the classical literary criticism, which is a tradition of the literary study sourced from the times of Aristotle’s Poetics. A characteristic of this tradition is reliance on the deep ordered structures observed in literary works. Vanda Zaborskaitė investigated such deep literary structures (images and their constellations) as codes of individual artistic self-awareness. In the opinion of the researcher, the pinnacles of literary art are those works which, by employing aesthetic persuasion, interpret the classical ideas of the Western world: the ideas of the absolute value of the personality, freedom, and the primate of the spirit. Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė researched the Lithuanian classic authors during the years of Soviet occupation, and did this in such a way that her works promoted the classical literature along with the classical values.
{"title":"Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic?","authors":"Dalia Čiočytė","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922–2010) was a famous literary critic and the author of a fundamental monograph about the prominent Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (Maironis, 1968, 1987). Vanda Zaborskaitė wrote during the period of Soviet occupation, when Marxist criticism was obligatory. She used the sociological method as interpreted by Marxism, but she never accepted its philosophical determinism. She considered it important to put a literary work in the contextual frame of the literary history; however, she did not accept the view according to which literature is ruled by the laws of the social and cultural history. The philosophical position of Vanda Zaborskaitė was modernisation of the classical literary criticism, which is a tradition of the literary study sourced from the times of Aristotle’s Poetics. A characteristic of this tradition is reliance on the deep ordered structures observed in literary works. Vanda Zaborskaitė investigated such deep literary structures (images and their constellations) as codes of individual artistic self-awareness. In the opinion of the researcher, the pinnacles of literary art are those works which, by employing aesthetic persuasion, interpret the classical ideas of the Western world: the ideas of the absolute value of the personality, freedom, and the primate of the spirit. Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė researched the Lithuanian classic authors during the years of Soviet occupation, and did this in such a way that her works promoted the classical literature along with the classical values.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"8 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.3.5
Alius Jaskelevičius
For a long time, Aristotle was considered the author of the “Rhetoric to Alexander”. However, in the 16th century, Anaximenes of Lampsacus came to be considered its author. Despite some links between the teachings of the “Rhetoric to Alexander” and those of Anaximenes, the question of authorship remains unresolved.Based on the text of the “Rhetoric to Alexander” that has come down to us, and in conjunction with other intertexts, attempts have been made to determine the extent to which the “Rhetoric to Alexander” may have been influenced by different authors and texts. This paper raises doubts about whether attributing the “Rhetoric to Alexander” to Anaximenes closes the debate on the authorship of this work.
{"title":"Retorika Aleksandrui: tekstas ir intertekstai","authors":"Alius Jaskelevičius","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"For a long time, Aristotle was considered the author of the “Rhetoric to Alexander”. However, in the 16th century, Anaximenes of Lampsacus came to be considered its author. Despite some links between the teachings of the “Rhetoric to Alexander” and those of Anaximenes, the question of authorship remains unresolved.Based on the text of the “Rhetoric to Alexander” that has come down to us, and in conjunction with other intertexts, attempts have been made to determine the extent to which the “Rhetoric to Alexander” may have been influenced by different authors and texts. This paper raises doubts about whether attributing the “Rhetoric to Alexander” to Anaximenes closes the debate on the authorship of this work.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139228149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.4
Métou Kané
Languages are equivalent in that they are, in essence, perceived as a means of communication within a given group. However, this primary functionality is not the essence of our thinking. It is, of course, important, but it includes a beyond that interests us: the representativeness of language on the literary chessboard. The latter seems crucial to us because, from an analytical point of view, it contributes to creating a hierarchy between the languages of the world. This fame is necessary for certain African cultures that thirst for literary expressiveness and whose languages are very often unknown at the level of world literature. And this is the basis of their inability to carry their rich culture into a process of accomplished literacy. The Baoulé language suffers from this deficiency. For example, Baoulé, Konan Roger Langui’s mother tongue, struggled to promote Attoungblan. This explains the poet’s choice of the French language as the language of writing in order to achieve this. This explains the poet’s choice of the French language as the language of writing in order to achieve this. Obviously, the scope of languages sometimes determines the choice of writers. Wandi Bla! attests to this. Through this poetic creation that puts orality at the service of writing, the work takes on an intercultural dimension.
{"title":"De la prédominance de la langue française dans l’expressivité littéraire en Afrique francophone: cas de Wandi Bla! de Konan Roger Langui","authors":"Métou Kané","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"Languages are equivalent in that they are, in essence, perceived as a means of communication within a given group. However, this primary functionality is not the essence of our thinking. It is, of course, important, but it includes a beyond that interests us: the representativeness of language on the literary chessboard. The latter seems crucial to us because, from an analytical point of view, it contributes to creating a hierarchy between the languages of the world. This fame is necessary for certain African cultures that thirst for literary expressiveness and whose languages are very often unknown at the level of world literature. And this is the basis of their inability to carry their rich culture into a process of accomplished literacy. The Baoulé language suffers from this deficiency. For example, Baoulé, Konan Roger Langui’s mother tongue, struggled to promote Attoungblan. This explains the poet’s choice of the French language as the language of writing in order to achieve this. This explains the poet’s choice of the French language as the language of writing in order to achieve this. Obviously, the scope of languages sometimes determines the choice of writers. Wandi Bla! attests to this. Through this poetic creation that puts orality at the service of writing, the work takes on an intercultural dimension.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"160 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.3
Ewa Kalinowska
The choice of language for literary creation is not a simple one, especially for African writers. Having grown up in a naturally multilingual environment and exposed to European languages, they often express themselves in the language of former colonizers. However, this is neither obvious nor should it remain a definitive choice for authors from various African countries. We will present different motivations, attitudes, and decisions of several writers; from the most radical, rejecting the European language, to others who hold onto it – either exclusively or accompanied by African languages.
{"title":"L’écrivain africain entre deux langues: dilemmes et décisions","authors":"Ewa Kalinowska","doi":"10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2023.65.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"The choice of language for literary creation is not a simple one, especially for African writers. Having grown up in a naturally multilingual environment and exposed to European languages, they often express themselves in the language of former colonizers. However, this is neither obvious nor should it remain a definitive choice for authors from various African countries. We will present different motivations, attitudes, and decisions of several writers; from the most radical, rejecting the European language, to others who hold onto it – either exclusively or accompanied by African languages.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"346 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：