Il "Paradiso perduto" della Zona di alienazione Temi mitopoietici e uso degli spazi funebri nella Polesia post-Čornobyl'
In my contribution, I aim to describe the mythopoeic narrative about the vtračenyj raj ("lost paradise"), its main themes, and its role in the post-disaster recovery processes that have begun in the Chernobyl-hit areas (North Ukraine). The vtračenyj raj narrative - being rooted in a pervas...
| Subtitles: | The "Paradise Lost" of the mythopoietic themes and use of space in funeral Polesia post--Čornobyl |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Morcelliana
2014
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2014, Volume: 80, Issue: 1, Pages: 391-410 |
| Further subjects: | B
Chernobyl
B paradiso perduto B Afterlife B Cemeteries; Social aspects B territorial anguish B Ukraine B cimiteri B Čornobyl' B Cemeteries B mitopoiesi B angoscia territoriale B Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone B Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986 B lost paradise B mythopoiesis |
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| Summary: | In my contribution, I aim to describe the mythopoeic narrative about the vtračenyj raj ("lost paradise"), its main themes, and its role in the post-disaster recovery processes that have begun in the Chernobyl-hit areas (North Ukraine). The vtračenyj raj narrative - being rooted in a pervasive ideology of attachment to the native land (ridnyj kraj) - pivots on an imagined Edenic idyll in which the disaster did not occur and the local communities did suffer no harm nor loss. I maintain that this mythopoeic narrative activates supportive emotional and cognitive resources and helps communities to establish a renewed social project. I also intend to rethink the social role of burial sites in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: there the cemeteries are continuously visited against the official proscriptions and a number of small rural communities keep on cultivating their lands despite the environmental contamination. These sites help people to activate mnestic and emotional connections with and among the places: not only physical places, but also remembered, transfigured, imagined ones. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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