WANDERING AROUND THE CEMETERY OF CHILDHOOD: ELIZABETH BISHOP AND THE POETICS OF AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2018, Vol 316, Issue 304
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the poetics of auto-ethnography as the dominant artistic discourse in the works of American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Auto-ethnography, a relatively new method in humanitarian studies which arose in the middle of the 20th century along with interest in queer research, is based on (auto)biographical narration. This allows an artist to focus on his identity and its representation in the frames of certain cultural norms and conventions. Autobiographic narrative is considered as fundamental discourse of Bishop's creativity and serves as an analytical method for interpretation of poetic auto-ethnography, as an effective artistic means of searching for and determining poet‟s identity. This motivates the novelty of this article, which is the first attempt of academic analysis of Bishop‟s poetry in Ukrainian American studies. Bishop‟s early orphancy (her father died when she was an infant, her mother was in a madhouse), her understanding of personal otherness and alienation conditioned her constant physical movement in space (she did not stop traveling, she dreamed of her own home and at least some kind of stability and confidence – in the relationships and environment), and also determined her reflections over the dominants of her identity – both artistic and human. One can speak of Bishop poetry as evidence of her permanent (e)migration, embodied in the nomadic art consciousness, whose temporal settled life is in the discrete markers of Kairos, snatched up by memory from the chronologically structured recollections of everyday life. This determined the subject of the study – the poetics of auto-ethnography, based on the comprehension and analysis of the imagined landscape of the poetic space, which, formed by nomadic consciousness of the poet, contributes to the realization of the objective set in the work – mapping of memory as the decisive factor in Bishop‟s self-identification – as a poet and a person.
Authors and Affiliations
T. V. Mykhed
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP615709
- DOI -
- Views 113
- Downloads 0
MYTHOLOGYCAL SYMBOLS OF IMAGE OF THE MOON IN THE POETRY BY CHRYSTIA ALCHEVSKA AND HRYTSKO CHUPRYNKA
Mythological thinking as the basis of literary works of any artist synthesizes an ancient pagan worldview constants, plots, motifs and images of world mythology, folk-song elements and the actual author’s creation of myt...
TEMPORAL MYTHOLOGEMS IN HALYNA PAHUTIAK’S LITERARY PROSE
The principal objective of the paper is to analyze the temporal dimension of H. Pahutiak’s mythopoetics. It focuses on the recur-ring images and motifs with immanent temporality, and also on the interpretation of the myt...
FANTASY AS A MEANS OF INNER EMIGRATION IN THE WRITING OF HOPE MIRRLEES
The article deals with the life and writing of the British writer Hope Mirrlees, as well as the reasons and specifics of her inner emigration. Mirrlees‟s writing has only recently gained literary scholars‟ attention but...
CONCEPT OF FOOD IN THE NOVEL «VILNA COMMUNARDS» BY M. HARETSKYY IN THE CONTEXT OF LITERATURE GASTRONOMIC TRADITIONS 1920–30’s
The article is devoted to the category of food, that determines the ideological and aesthetic features of the novel «Vilna Communards» by modernist Belarusian Maxim Haretskyy, whose creative career was prematurely cut sh...
MEMORIES ABOUT UKRAINE IN THE PROSE OF M. ARKAS III
The author analyzes the prose heritage of Mykola Arkas III, who grew up and was formed in Mykolaiv region. His national and biographical roots are mentioned. M. Arkas Jr in his Povist pro nash step shyrokodolyi (The Tale...