საქართველოს ანექსია და საბჭოთა წარსული, როგორც კულტურული ტრავმა
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2021
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A human, by nature, is a storyteller. In addition to describing, storytelling means
interpretation too. Consciously or subconsciously, things, facts and events that happened
in the past, gain meaning. This is done by a storyteller, as well as the audience
(Neimeyer, 2006: 179). If the texts, that show trauma around the past events, are not
created, however tragic the event may be, it will not be considered as cultural/collective
shock, because modern society is not influenced by the past, but its representation,
which is created, spread and taken into a specific cultural frame and political
situation instead (Assmann and Shortt, 2012: 3-4). Collective trauma, established in
the cultural memory , can function as a uniting factor for our group, for a long time.
The goal of our paper is to see how the 1921 Annexation and the Soviet past is
analyzed and interpreted in fiction and memoirs, which were written after Georgia
gained back its independence. Chosen texts are not only recognized by critics but
are also popular amongst the people. Ergo, their influence on structuring collective
memory and trauma is strong. They were created from 1989 to today and show us the
dynamic of narrative. As for the memoirs, in non-fiction, this genre is called “Life
Writing”. This is a much broader concept, than (auto)biography. Life writing not only
narrates, but it also analyses the process of forming a certain shape of identity. This
is not just an analysis of “how”, but also why was this platform or paradigm, from
where the author views the world, created. “Life is not what yo u lived, but it is what
you remember and how” (Ghoghoberidze, 2019: 9). These words in director Lana Ghoghoberidze’s memoirs can be considered as the definition of this genre. We think
that fiction and memoirs play a crucial role in forming an event as Cultural Trauma.
On the one hand, literature pieces shape an event as trauma, and on the other, they
present an important tool for overcoming the trauma. Overcoming trauma is possible
with constant analysis and not with repressions and concealment.
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კონფერენცია ეძღვნება ჭაბუა ამირეჯიბის დაბადებიდან 100 წლის იუბილეს/ The Conference is Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Chabua Amirejibi
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საქართველო, საბჭოთა კავშირი, კულტურული ტრავმა, Georgia, Soviet Union, cultural trauma
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საერთაშორისო სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია: 1921 წლის ისტორიულ-კულტურული მოვლენები: ხედვა საუკუნის შემდეგ, თეზისები, 2021, გვ. 164-166/ International Scientific Conference: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL EVENTS OF 1921: THE VISION A CENTURY LATER, Theses, 2021, pp.: 164-166