Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Yugra State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is part of a set of studies devoted to the work of women poets. The work actualizes the gender approach to literature, comprehends the Mansi women’s literature on the example of S. S. Dinislamova’s poetic creativity.
Objective: to identify the peculiarities of the author’s gender identity and reveal the originality of the author’s individual poetic picture of the world.
Research materials: the poetic book by S. S. Dinislamova “My Quiet Happiness”.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the work comprehends the phenomenon of Mansi women’s literature. The lyrical works by S. S. Dinislamova have never been analyzed in the context of a gender approach in literary creativity. The results of the study show that the lyrical heroine of the Mansi poet transmits a wide range of women experiences, thoughts, feelings, and this is embodied in the ability to combine several roles: mother, lover, keeper of the house, intercessor; to realize oneself as a particle of the Universe, a guest, a transit passenger. Associative perception helps the heroine to imagine herself as a pagan, a bird (a sterkh, a swan), a wolf. The violation of harmonious relations with the outside world changes the woman perspective. Stability and constancy turn into a temporary presence; flight a symbol of freedom disappears, happiness and joy as are replaced by fatigue and loneliness. The individual author’s woman image in S. S. Dinislamova’s lyrics has both stable and changing dominant characteristics of the female world. These changes are associated with external transformations; stability determines the eternal values in a woman’s life.
Key words: Mansi literature, women’s literature, gender, women’s perspective, S. S. Dinislamova
For citation: Kosintseva E. V. A woman’s perspective in the lyrics by S. S. Dinislamova (on the material of the book “My Quiet Happiness”) // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (4/55): 642–649.