THE REFLECTION OF REGIONAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE OF THE YENISEI SIBERIA AUTHORS

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to characteristic of the regional self-identification process, reflected in the autobiographical prose of the Yenisei Siberia region authors created in the 20th century. The objects of consideration are works published in regional journals and almanacs. Methodology. The historical, cultural, literary and ethnographic discourses are actualized in the analysis of autobiographical prose. The techniques of discourse, contextual and semantic analysis are used. Results. The events of the calendar and economic cycle (Easter, pomochi, house cleaning, construction of winter quarters, etc.) presented in the autobiographical prose, the folk calendar, family holidays reflect the unconscious aspiration of the Siberians to the ethnic identity construction, based on the moral and aesthetic ideal of national peasant culture that defines the relation of man to the nature, family values, economic set-up. Practical implications. The materials of the article can be used when reading special courses on the issues of regional identification and self-identification, folklore, ethnography and culture of the Yenisei Siberia.

Keywords

• региональная самоидентификация автора
• автобиографическая проза
• этнокультура
• этническая идентичность
• дом
• народный календарь
• дискурс
• Приенисейская Сибирь