التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The Socialist New Woman Redux: Hella Wuolijoki’s Life Writing in the 1940s |
| المؤلفون: |
Leppänen, Katarina |
| المصدر: |
European Journal of Life Writing; Vol. 5 (2016): EJLW; GP9-GP23 ; European Journal of Life Writing; Vol 5 (2016): EJLW; GP9-GP23 ; 2211-243X |
| بيانات النشر: |
University of Groningen Press |
| سنة النشر: |
2016 |
| المجموعة: |
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: Journal Hosting / University of Groningen Press |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Hella Wuolijoki, Finland, Estonia, political autobiography, the new woman, socialism |
| الوصف: |
Autobiography can be thought of as, among other things, a speech of defence. The Estonian-Finnish author Hella Wuolijoki started writing her autobiography in prison and it very much reads as a legitimization of her political life choices. The article investigates how Wuolijoki depicts her own politicization, and how she plays with different author names in order to destabilize a taken-for-granted author position. The material used is her three part autobiography/memoirs, in which she explicitly declares that she is less interested in the facts of her life, but rather wants to keep them in their original memory-form. This gives her the freedom to recount events she deems important for her self-formation, rather than events or general interest. Feminist and autobiographical theory is used as a tool to investigate how dislodging the authorial position can open new ways of emphasising a woman’s political development. Thus, the literary formation of a political and feminist persona can be studied through her works. In this article I relate Wuolijoki’s writing to a way of theorizing the position of the political woman that could be found in Alexandra Kollontai’s pamphlet on the socialist New Woman written in 1918. The article analyses how Wuolijoki legitimizes her political activities by recounting her life as always intricately connected to contemporary political events. The article shows that political autobiography is a concept that can open new perspectives on women’s life writing and that the construction of an autobiographical persona that combines the concepts of woman and political may rely, as in this case, on types or models found in literature rather than life. Swedish: Självbiografi kan ses som, bland annat, ett försvarstal. Den estnisk-finska författaren Hella Wuolijoki började skriva sin självbiografi i fängelset för att legitimera sina politiska livsval. Artikeln undersöker hur Wuolijoki skildrar sin egen politisering och hur hon leker med olika författarnamn för att destabilisera en förgivet ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf; application/xml |
| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31469/28804; https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31469/28805; https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31469 |
| الاتاحة: |
https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31469 |
| Rights: |
Copyright (c) 2016 Katarina Leppänen ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.22251B9F |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |