“How many there arestars over your Africa!”: The literary and publi-cistic body of the Russian emigrants’ work in Tunisia Cover Image

«О сколько звезд над Африкой твоей!»: литературно-публицистическое наследние русских эмигрантов Туниса
“How many there arestars over your Africa!”: The literary and publi-cistic body of the Russian emigrants’ work in Tunisia

Author(s): Elena Elstova
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Tunisia;Russian Squadron; literary and publicistic heritage;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an overview of the literary and publicistic heritage of emigrants in Tunisia introducing the “African” page of the expat chronicle of the Russian community. Through the example of the Bizertine cycle of poems by the poetess I. Knor-ring, the historical and literary body of the work of N. Monastyrev, A. Sernin, memoirs by M. Ardatov, V. von Berg, N. Knorring, A. Shirinskaya and publications in the periodical press we suggest a rich range of topics and imageries (history of the Russian f leet, loss of the Homeland, search in exile, diaspora life in the foreign land, etc.). The authors of the chronotope of the Russian exodus, and Bizerta as the last port of the Russian Squadron, meet individually authorial semiotic comprehension and interpenetration which ref lects the unique interaction of authenticity and mythologisation of reality in the space of the emigrant text.

  • Issue Year: 1/2020
  • Issue No: XXV
  • Page Range: 61-74
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian