Dolgan Invitation to the Tundra: the Artistic World of Ogdo Aksenova

• Main Author: Aleksei A. Arzamazov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2020-12-01
• Series: Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
• Subjects: national literature; dolgan poetry; literary translation; figurative system; ethnocultural originality; language; genre
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/24690/18665

The main purpose of the article is to analyze the poetic texts of Ogdo Aksenova, who is sole representative of the Dolgan national literary tradition. The main themes, key motives and symbols of her artistic world (the image of the northern landscape, the image of the tundra, poetic variations on the theme of the seasons, etc.) are established, the ethnocultural originality of the poetic discourse (linguistic levels of expressiveness, realities of Dolgan culture) is analyzed. Special attention is paid to the genre of the song, which has folklore and mythological roots. It is emphasized that in separate collections and works the boundaries between the authors and folklore are blurred. The article assesses the quality of the literary translation of the texts of the Dolgan poetess into Russian. The work of O. Aksenova is of great research interest from the point of view of identifying specific mechanisms of the formation and development of minority literature.