On the issue of northern identity in a literary text: The case of works by T. Odulok, A. Krivoshapkin, G. Keptuke

Abstract

The article discusses the specifics of the local literary tradition on the example of the work of the Yukaghir N. I. Spiridonov – Teki Odulok, Even Andrey Krivoshapkin and Evenk G. I. Varlamova – Kaptuke. expressed in the characteristic features of the author’s self-awareness. Northern literature as a northern text, regardless of the language in which it is written, has a high degree of representativeness, which comes primarily from the development of the unique image of the Far North as a geographical space and landscape, and its impact on the picture of the world of a northern person, historically formed under the influence of extreme natural and climatic conditions.
The possible parameters of the «northern identity» in its symbolic and conceptual manifestations in the literary text are determined. Attention is focused on the dominants in the definition and description of the northern territories, in connection with which a unique model of geospace appears. The problem of the identity of the image of a literary character – a reindeer herder and a nomad, the correlation of the image of the hero with the mental, semantic, social, cultural content is actualized.