Published: 2021-12-18

A generation of reconciled identity? Mail – Jazz by Olga Shurbanova and Krystju Pastuhov

Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa
Zeszyty Łużyckie
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.898

Abstract

The article is a study on the selection of email correspondence between two Bul­garian intellectuals, Olga Shurbanova and Krystju Pastuhov, entitled Mail–Jazz (2011). The hybrid form and character of mnemonic strategies used by the authors result in a specific repertoire of self-presentation practices, typical of the so called “noble misfits” whose behavior expresses opposition to the dominant culture, a re­sponse common for the artistic milieu. The analysis uses Georg Simmel’s category of “sociability” which is a starting point for a study of the lifestyle and performa­tive identity of the authors’ generation and the social circles of their youth. These groups refused to accept the homo sovieticus identity, and remained remained attentive and critical observers of the changes following he 1989 breakthrough.

Keywords:

Bulgarian literature, performative identity, sociability, lifestyle

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Szwat-Gyłybowa, G. (2021). A generation of reconciled identity? Mail – Jazz by Olga Shurbanova and Krystju Pastuhov. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 55(1), 253–271. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.898

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