ILYA KAMINSKY’S DANCING IN ODESSA: ON EXILE, AMNESIA AND POETIC ANAMNESIS
Journal Title: Δόξα / Докса. Збірник наукових праць з філософії та філології - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
This paper focuses on the Russian emigrant poet Ilya Kaminsky and his book of poems Dancing in Odessa (2004), which in my talk becomes a background for reflections on otherness, minority, exile, absence, silence and poetic recollection. But first I will have a brief look at the city, which occupies such a prominent place in Kaminsky’s poetry, to put my presentation into a wider context. In the Russian cultural imaginaries Odessa is connected to the concept of the kaleidoscope; it is a mechanism refracting history, culture and nationalities in pluralistic ever-changing settings (cf. Richardson 2008). In these imaginaries the city even comes close the Foucaultian idea of certain spaces as heterotopia or otherness, an anti-topos to more hegemonistic, monolithic structures (Foucault 1984). Moreover, Odessa in a quintessential way is similar to the palimpsest, being a tight layer of different cultural and ethnic stories, a meeting place of diverse tendencies and divergent impulses.
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Lillian Jorunn HELLE
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