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Papers by Shafag Dadashova
Psihologie, 2018
The article explores women autobiographies as a special category of life-writing. The first part ... more The article explores women autobiographies as a special category of life-writing. The first part is about traditions of women autobiographies. This section aims to understand how women authors construct an authentic identity in life writings. The second part is about explanation of motives in literature and sociology and about the motives in women autobiographies as combination of ontological (sociology, life) and epistemological (literature, presentation of life) aspects. In this paper, women autobiographies are classified in accordance with Jungian hero motives. The paper concentrates on the second type of autobiographies which are common among women authors and coincide with Jungian archetypes of hero in initiation.
The Soviet Union established a specific culture, imposingly uniting representatives of diverse na... more The Soviet Union established a specific culture, imposingly uniting representatives of diverse nations around strictly defined values. The closed borders kept the outside world unknown for Soviet citizens. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the majority of people from post-Soviet Republics faced the difficult necessity of a reassessment of their values. The confusion was even more severe for the people who immigrated to Western countries. The present article discusses self-narratives written by post-Soviet immigrant authors with a focus on cultural differences that they describe in their works. The stability and security of the previous times are contrasted to the dynamics and aspirations of the present reality. The authors' interpretation of the cultural differences reveals interesting details of post-Soviet identity.
This paper tries to explore authors’ self-identity in their self-translated autobiographies throu... more This paper tries to explore authors’ self-identity in their self-translated autobiographies through a reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-writing in two languages and presented in three different forms with three different titles. Nabokov’s autobiography is a twofold translation on the one hand and three different life-writings on the other hand. The first version was written in English and entitled Conclusive Evidence, in which the author seems to be trying to provide evidence for his place in a foreign culture. The second book is the translation of the above-mentioned book, but it was done by the author himself, he approached to this process very creatively, courageously adapting it to a new audience. This Russian version was entitled Druqie bereqa, where Nabokov discuss his life in other shores to his compatriots. This book does not include all parts of the first version, and the author chooses suitable information to affect on Russian soul. The third version Speak Memory is the m...
Slovo
During the Soviet period, nobody in Banine's motherland, Azerbaijan, knew about her DADASHOVA-BOO... more During the Soviet period, nobody in Banine's motherland, Azerbaijan, knew about her DADASHOVA-BOOK REVIEW
Filosofija. Sociologija
The study discusses epistemological aspects of power and the dynamics of its perception in the pr... more The study discusses epistemological aspects of power and the dynamics of its perception in the process of life-writing. Autobiography is presented as a specific form of epiphany. The paper suggests that writing one’s own life enables the author to better understand the past. As a result of a retrospective self-analysis the writer shapes a new look at the borders of his/her personal power and the level of its dependence on others. In investigation of life-writings, a qualitative method of social sciences in combination with hermeneutics, close reading and discourse analysis reveal deep and hidden social norms, gender roles, religion, and their role in empowerment and disempowerment of the author. The study consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical and interrogates the notion of personal power. It finds links between writing the own life and conscious empowerment, arguing that the author becomes more conscious about the own personality after having analysed the past decisio...
Psihologie, 2018
The article explores women autobiographies as a special category of life-writing. The first part ... more The article explores women autobiographies as a special category of life-writing. The first part is about traditions of women autobiographies. This section aims to understand how women authors construct an authentic identity in life writings. The second part is about explanation of motives in literature and sociology and about the motives in women autobiographies as combination of ontological (sociology, life) and epistemological (literature, presentation of life) aspects. In this paper, women autobiographies are classified in accordance with Jungian hero motives. The paper concentrates on the second type of autobiographies which are common among women authors and coincide with Jungian archetypes of hero in initiation.
The Soviet Union established a specific culture, imposingly uniting representatives of diverse na... more The Soviet Union established a specific culture, imposingly uniting representatives of diverse nations around strictly defined values. The closed borders kept the outside world unknown for Soviet citizens. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the majority of people from post-Soviet Republics faced the difficult necessity of a reassessment of their values. The confusion was even more severe for the people who immigrated to Western countries. The present article discusses self-narratives written by post-Soviet immigrant authors with a focus on cultural differences that they describe in their works. The stability and security of the previous times are contrasted to the dynamics and aspirations of the present reality. The authors' interpretation of the cultural differences reveals interesting details of post-Soviet identity.
This paper tries to explore authors’ self-identity in their self-translated autobiographies throu... more This paper tries to explore authors’ self-identity in their self-translated autobiographies through a reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-writing in two languages and presented in three different forms with three different titles. Nabokov’s autobiography is a twofold translation on the one hand and three different life-writings on the other hand. The first version was written in English and entitled Conclusive Evidence, in which the author seems to be trying to provide evidence for his place in a foreign culture. The second book is the translation of the above-mentioned book, but it was done by the author himself, he approached to this process very creatively, courageously adapting it to a new audience. This Russian version was entitled Druqie bereqa, where Nabokov discuss his life in other shores to his compatriots. This book does not include all parts of the first version, and the author chooses suitable information to affect on Russian soul. The third version Speak Memory is the m...
Slovo
During the Soviet period, nobody in Banine's motherland, Azerbaijan, knew about her DADASHOVA-BOO... more During the Soviet period, nobody in Banine's motherland, Azerbaijan, knew about her DADASHOVA-BOOK REVIEW
Filosofija. Sociologija
The study discusses epistemological aspects of power and the dynamics of its perception in the pr... more The study discusses epistemological aspects of power and the dynamics of its perception in the process of life-writing. Autobiography is presented as a specific form of epiphany. The paper suggests that writing one’s own life enables the author to better understand the past. As a result of a retrospective self-analysis the writer shapes a new look at the borders of his/her personal power and the level of its dependence on others. In investigation of life-writings, a qualitative method of social sciences in combination with hermeneutics, close reading and discourse analysis reveal deep and hidden social norms, gender roles, religion, and their role in empowerment and disempowerment of the author. The study consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical and interrogates the notion of personal power. It finds links between writing the own life and conscious empowerment, arguing that the author becomes more conscious about the own personality after having analysed the past decisio...