Archiving the memory. Historical representation in documentary poetry

Anastasia R. Nikonova

doi:10.28995/2686-7249-2025-2-23-32

Archiving the memory. Historical representation in documentary poetry

Anastasia R. Nikonova

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-2-23-32

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Abstract

The article deals with identifying the relationship between documentary poetry (docupoetry) and historical representation. Historical representation is giving the past a presence in nowadays. According to P. Ricoeur, it is the final phase of historiographical operation, which consists in selecting documents, testimonies and facts, structuring them and building them into a historical narrative. Since documentary poetry attracts material outside of itself – a document in the broad sense of the word – it has mechanisms similar to those of historiographical operation, and thus the potential for historical representation.

Keywords

documentary poetry, document, archive, historical representation,

About the Author

Anastasia R. Nikonova

Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation

Anastasia R. Nikonova, master student

6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047

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For citation: Nikonova A.R. Archiving the memory. Historical representation in documentary poetry. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2025;(2):23-32. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-2-23-32

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