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- Title
THE BELARUSIAN EMIGRATION HERITAGE IN MODERN BELARUSIAN AND FOREIGN PRINT.
- Authors
GERASIMOV, VALERIJ; DOVNAR, LARISA
- Abstract
The aim of our research is the analysis of the Belarusian emigration heritage in modern Belarusian and foreign print: the historical premises of ⲇиacⲡopa forming, the print heritage role in the national identity preservation, determination the leading publishing centers revealing of the main problems and tendencies of the publishing development in the changing Belarusian society. The first migration processes in the Belarusian area have known from the 6th-17th centuries. There were nine waves of the Belarusian emigration from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 21 century. The basic contribution to forming of the modern Belarusian Diaspora infrastructure was made by: 1) the political emigration between two world wars 1920-1939; 2) the political emigration after Second World War. The Belarusian emigrants have created their solid culture base -- church and public organizations, scientific and cultural centers, publishing houses, magazines and newspapers. The Belarusian abroad heritage has been returning to its Motherland from the beginning of the 1980s. The modern age of the relations between metropolis and Diaspora consists of two stages: 1990-1994 and from the 1994th to nowadays. During the first stage there was an active coming back of the whole Belarusian abroad printed heritage to nation cultural and scientific life. The significant role in this process was played by the public organizations "International organization of belarusists", "Batkovshchina" ("Motherland"). The second stage had begun after the President Republic establishment in Belarus in 1994. The national revival policy was finished gradually and replaced by the policy of dissent of the Belarusian Diaspora and discredit of the national-democratic orientation of its leaders. The situation in the publishing industry of Belarus is following: state publishing houses have stopped issue of the long-distance abroad literature and reduced to single cases publishing of the near abroad literature; private publishing houses which specialize in that kind of literature have finished their being mostly, the others are in liquidation stage or have financial problems. In the rest: individual publishing initiatives; single independent fund (grant) and joint Belarusian-foreign publishing specialized projects; periodicals; editions of public and national-cultural organizations. Informal semi-legal and clandestine editions of different opposition organizations extend over the country like in the end of the 1980s -- in the beginning of the 1990s. They are not registered by national bibliography as a rule and present in libraries of Belarus with great lacunas. Including semi-legal and clandestine editions which we have looked de visu there are more than 60 editions in the field of our research. The contraction of the researchers' and readers' audience of the Belarusian abroad and the Diaspora heritage theme in the modern print of Belarus is one of the problems. The Belarusian emigration per se is the factor of cultural and political processes in Belarus at present and past. Publishing activities plays an important role in the Belarusian emigration life. As regards the number of the modern print heritage of the Belarusian emigration more than 830 titles of books and brochures and 62 titles of periodicals were issued during the period from the 1991st to the 2007th according to our data. Since 2001 this number has been decreasing. The biggest publishing centers of the Belarusian emigrants are located in the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Australia etc. The publishing activities of Belarusian Institute of Science and Art (USA), the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Muzeum (Great Britain) were the most productive during the whole Belarusian emigration history. Historical, social and political, religious, arts critic literature and fiction are the most published.…
- Subjects
BELARUS; EMIGRATION &; immigration; NATIONAL character; PUBLISHING; SOCIETIES; DIASPORA
- Publication
Knygotyra, 2008, Issue 50, p158
- ISSN
0204-2061
- Publication type
Article