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1. The book about the motherland: analyzing discursive practices

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1. The book about the motherland: analyzing discursive practices

Входимость: 1. Размер: 19кб.

Часть текста: justified in believing Rodina to be the „main word" of Russian culture, a total signifier that claims absolute supremacy over identity and dominates the discourse irrespective of those political or economic principles that underlie Russian society during its different historical periods. Being an important element in the ideological lexicon, Rodina, however, is not a mere representation of „false consciousness" and cannot be dismissed as such. This figure supersedes the limits that are traditionally given to political terms in cultural critique. Being an important element of the language of power, the discourse of the Motherland also constitutes an important work of collective imagination, deeply woven into the texture of individual life styles and individual self-representations. Rodina is a number one value for the ideologue, but it is no less dear to the heart of the poet; it is equally relevant for a loyal citizen of the state as for a dissident political exile, and in the discourse of the average individual it receives as much attention as in the production of ideological propaganda that seeks to dominate the subjectivity of that very average individual. In other words, Rodina is an efficient discursive machine for the production of symbolic togetherness: it has a tremendous potential in eliminating political difference inside society producing, at the same time, a prohibitive barrier against the external Other. The community of the Motherland, organized into a symbolic whole by its own self-centered political / poetical imagination, is the one that celebrates the perpetual feast of its own „cultural non-translatability". In the present research, Rodina has been analyzed in its...