The Chronotopos of the 1990s: Trauma and Triumph in Georgian Literary Texts

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Ivane Tsereteli
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A collective trauma established in the cultural memory can function as a unifier of the in-group for a long time. The objective of this article is to clarify how April 9, 1989 and 1991, the Tbilisi War and civil confrontation, and a stressful series of sudden and intensive changes are analyzed, conceptualized, and interpreted in the fiction and memoirs created after Georgia became independent, to what extent the use of the notions of trauma and triumph are appropriate for Georgia, and whether the reality of the 1990s can be assessed as the trauma of victory. We believe that fiction and memoirs play a major role in constructing an event as a cultural trauma. On the one hand, literary texts determine the meaning of an event and shape it as a trauma and on the other hand, narration is an important method for overcoming a trauma. A trauma can be overcome through constantly conceptualizing and analyzing it, not through repression and hushing.
20世纪90年代的Chronotopos:格鲁吉亚文学文本中的创伤与胜利
在文化记忆中形成的集体创伤可以在很长一段时间内起到团结内群体的作用。本文的目的是澄清1989年4月9日和1991年,第比利斯战争和国内对抗,以及一系列紧张的突然和激烈的变化是如何在格鲁吉亚独立后创作的小说和回忆录中分析、概念化和解释的,创伤和胜利的概念在多大程度上适用于格鲁吉亚,以及20世纪90年代的现实是否可以被评估为胜利的创伤。我们认为,小说和回忆录在将事件构建为文化创伤方面发挥了重要作用。文学文本一方面决定事件的意义并将其塑造为创伤,另一方面,叙事是克服创伤的重要手段。创伤可以通过不断地概念化和分析来克服,而不是通过压抑和沉默。
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Plural. History. Culture. Society
Plural. History. Culture. Society Arts and Humanities-History
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