Mēģinot izprast 20. gadsimta 20. gadu padomju latviešu identitāti. Roberta Eidemana garā stāsta “Ielenktie” imagoloģisks lasījums
Towards an understanding of Soviet Latvian identity in the 1920s. An Imagological Reading of the Long Story The Surrounded by Roberts Eidemanis

Summary/Abstract: The long story The Surrounded (“Ielenktie”) by Roberts Eidemanis (1895–1937), published in Moscow in 1925, is one of the first primary prose texts of Latvian Soviet literature. It marks a new thematic field, ideological position, and formal writing paradigm in Latvian literature, and it indirectly reflects who and what a Soviet Latvian is. The imagologist Daniel Henri Pageaux (1939) believed that by writing and talking about “others”, we are revealing “ourselves”. Considering this premise and the theoretical aspects and methodology of imagology, this article focuses on the long story The Surrounded, analyzing the ethnos and nationalities (genotypes) present in the text. However, given the Soviet›s pronounced internationalism – the article attempts to use an imagological reading, sorting not only traditional ethnotypes based on nationalities but also identifying and sorting the characters in the text by political and ideological persuasion. The article aims to identify what can be said about the self-identity embedded in the text through representations of the “other” (hetero-images), thus mapping a possible identity for Soviet Latvians in the 1920s through the narratives of the text.

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