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dc.contributor.authorMzia Jamagidze & Nino Amiranashvilien_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-12T07:23:33Z
dc.date.available2019-08-12T07:23:33Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-??
dc.description.abstractGeorgia’s Rose Revolution of November 2003 was a demonstration of the Georgian people’s desire for fundamental change. More specifically, it expressed their aspiration to overcome their post-Soviet status and to establish a fully functioning state and a fully competitive developed society. These ambitions took strength from a decades-long experience of cultural resistance to Soviet totalitarianism and Russian domination. Thus, the revolution had nationalcultural causes and origins as well as political ones. The resistance to Russian dominance, which has been an issue in Georgian culture for the last two centuries, has gained new ground in the post-Soviet period, and the Rose Revolution was a clear symbol of Georgia’s desire to develop a new identity based on a free and democratic state. Despite the cultural aspects of the Rose Revolution, it was primarily a social movement. Therefore, post-Soviet Georgian literature was not found in the center of the political upheavals. However, the revolutionary process was supported by young Georgian writers, practicing a predominantly postmodernist style and thus maintaining the ideas of pluralism and Westernization through their texts. The Revolution as a socio-political event has had a significant impact on the development of literature. The establishment of well-functioning state institutions, improved safety, increased social responsibility, and the attempt to integrate elements of Western culture into the fabric of society all provided new impulses to Georgian literature. Georgian literature of the 2000s still has made its contribution to the development of the narrative of liberalization and to rehabilitation in the face of historical traumas. However, the tendency toward elitism remained in Georgian literature; it was unable to influence the whole of Georgian society, part of which has maintained its ambivalent and dualistic outlook on the past and the future of the Georgian nation.en_US
dc.identifier07594C76-C28A-CA6E-5B21-347789EE29B4
dc.identifier.urihttp://rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw:80/handle/20.500.12235/84179
dc.language英文
dc.publisher英語學系zh_tw
dc.publisherDepartment of English, NTNUen_US
dc.relation42(1),169-191
dc.relation.ispartof同心圓:文學與文化研究zh_tw
dc.subject.otherGeorgiaen_US
dc.subject.otherRose Revolutionen_US
dc.subject.otherGeorgian literatureen_US
dc.subject.othertransitionen_US
dc.subject.othercultural paradigmen_US
dc.title.alternativeGeorgian Literature since the Rose Revolution: Old Traumas and New Agendaszh_tw

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