LIFE IN THE BORDERLANDS IN ALEKSANDR KUPRIN’S STORIES
Nel Bielniak
Instytut Neofilologii Uniwersytet ZielonogórskiAbstract
Having the opportunity to get acquainted with environmental and ethnographic realities of
the western and southern borderlands of the Russian Empire, Aleksandr Kuprin presents, in his
numerous stories, the uniqueness of these regions where different influences, i.e., Ukrainian, Jewish
and Russian overlapped. He focuses on the artefacts of local material and spiritual cultures as well
as the mentality, morality, topography, fauna and flora of the region. The writer repeatedly shows
the negative results of culture clashes inevitable in these provinces. One of them can be the ease with
which different antagonisms are created in the overcrowded, multiethnic and multireligious towns
(Anti-Semitism) or the existence of various kinds of disproportions, i.e., socio-economical ones. With
time Kuprin emphasizes the virtues of ethnic and cultural diversities of the community inhabiting the
borderlands. The coexistence of disparate traditions and value systems favours mutual enrichment
and that is why the writer thoroughly analyzes several aspects of cultural diffusion such as religious,
linguistic, culinary, moral and urban ones.
Keywords:
south-west borderland of the Russian Empire, settlement zone, heterogeneity, cultural syncretism, cultural diffusionReferences
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