Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud

This article reads Estonian writer Leida Kibuvits’s (1907–1976) novel “An Evening Ride” (Rahusõit, 1933) in dialogue with Virginia Woolf’s book-length feminist essay “Three Guineas” (1938) in order to explore how these two writers critique violent and patriarchal nationalism. In its place they imagi...

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Main Author: Eret Talviste
Format: Article
Language:Estonian
Published: SA Kultuurileht 2023-09-01
Series:Keel ja Kirjandus
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Online Access:https://keeljakirjandus.ee/ee/archives/35822
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description This article reads Estonian writer Leida Kibuvits’s (1907–1976) novel “An Evening Ride” (Rahusõit, 1933) in dialogue with Virginia Woolf’s book-length feminist essay “Three Guineas” (1938) in order to explore how these two writers critique violent and patriarchal nationalism. In its place they imagine, through their affective aesthetics, a peaceful and feminist relationship to the land. The article sees this imaginary meeting as something that Saidiya Hartman would term critical fabulation, and it situates Kibuvits’s and Woolf’s dialogue in the critical framework of transnational feminist modernist studies. By doing so, the article demonstrates that although these writers never met and may never have heard of one another, a comparative approach to their work fills in certain archival silences, also providing a nuanced understanding of how questions relating to women’s role in nation states were addressed similarly by writers across national borders during the first decades of the 20th century.
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spelling doaj.art-b092a3dc7921492a8d6f03394d1901f32024-02-03T13:09:49ZestSA KultuurilehtKeel ja Kirjandus0131-14412346-60142023-09-01668–993395210.54013/kk788a10Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunudEret Talviste0University of TartuThis article reads Estonian writer Leida Kibuvits’s (1907–1976) novel “An Evening Ride” (Rahusõit, 1933) in dialogue with Virginia Woolf’s book-length feminist essay “Three Guineas” (1938) in order to explore how these two writers critique violent and patriarchal nationalism. In its place they imagine, through their affective aesthetics, a peaceful and feminist relationship to the land. The article sees this imaginary meeting as something that Saidiya Hartman would term critical fabulation, and it situates Kibuvits’s and Woolf’s dialogue in the critical framework of transnational feminist modernist studies. By doing so, the article demonstrates that although these writers never met and may never have heard of one another, a comparative approach to their work fills in certain archival silences, also providing a nuanced understanding of how questions relating to women’s role in nation states were addressed similarly by writers across national borders during the first decades of the 20th century.https://keeljakirjandus.ee/ee/archives/35822literary studiesnationalismtransnational feminist modernismestonian literaturewomen’s writingcomparative literature
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Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud
Keel ja Kirjandus
literary studies
nationalism
transnational feminist modernism
estonian literature
women’s writing
comparative literature
title Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud
title_full Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud
title_fullStr Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud
title_full_unstemmed Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud
title_short Mõeldes rahust rongisõidu ajal ehk kui Leida Kibuvits ja Virginia Woolf oleksid kohtunud
title_sort moeldes rahust rongisoidu ajal ehk kui leida kibuvits ja virginia woolf oleksid kohtunud
topic literary studies
nationalism
transnational feminist modernism
estonian literature
women’s writing
comparative literature
url https://keeljakirjandus.ee/ee/archives/35822
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