Ethnofuturism
The term ethnofuturism is understood to mean a literary movement that began in Estonia with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s . The Estonian poet Karl Martin Sinijärv coined the term. It quickly spread over the small circle of Tartu poets around whom it was written. Today the idea finds supporters in many Finno-Ugric literatures , especially in Estonia and Udmurtia .
term
On the one hand, ethnofuturism strives for an express return to the roots of folk poetry and its peculiarities ( ethno ). In this sense, it sees itself as literature that reflects on its own national origins and folk tradition.
At the same time, poetry is forward-looking ( futurism ) and arrested in the 21st century. She therefore rejects the frozen repetition of old folk traditions or folkloric backwardness. On the contrary, ethnofuturism seeks to reconcile tradition with the modern world. The concept of ethnofuturism thus represents the attempt to bring the poetic roots of one's own people into harmony with contemporary, international literary trends.
After decades of suppression and assimilation of the national cultures of the Finno-Ugric peoples in the Soviet Union , the concept of ethnofuturism also seeks to find a self-confident, contemporary "Finno-Ugric identity" in the globalized world of the 21st century.
Ethnofuturism advocates the Internet with its freedom from hierarchies and the possibility of forming free networks as a future-oriented approach for the small national cultures of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
To representatives of ethno futurism Estonian authors like Karl Martin Sinijärv be Kauksi Ülle , Sven Kivisildnik and Kalju Lepik and the Udmurt poet Viktor Schibanow counted.
The term ethnofuturism now goes beyond literature and also includes art forms such as music and visual arts .
literature
- Piret Viires : "The Rise of Ethnofuturism". In: Estonia. Journal of Estonian Literature and Culture. No. 1 (1996), pp. 3-9
- Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 744-746
- Viktor Schibanov: "Ethnofuturism in Udmurt Literature." In: Congressus nonus internationalis fenno-ugristarum. Summaria acroasium in sectionibus et symposiis factarum. Volume 3. Tartu 2000, pp. 293f.
Web links
- Anneli Mihkelev: "Ethnofuturism. The Bridge Between National and International in Estonian Poetry." In: Estonian Literary Magazine No. 15/2002, pp. 4-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.suri.ee/etnofutu/4/cosmo-en.html
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- ↑ http://www.suri.ee/etnofutu/4/cosmo-en.html
