Alena Karimova’s work in the context of Russian-language poetry of Tatarstan

Abstract

   Based on the material of translations and original poems by Alena Karimova, the article identifies the characteristic features of the creative method of the Russian-speaking poetess, whose work can become an example of the continuity actualization of two languages and cultures.

   The purpose of the article is to describe the characteristic features of the creative method of the author, whose poems are an example of acceptance and reflection of the unique features characterizing two cultures.

   The translations of the Tatar poet Suleyman (Suleymanov Dzhavdet Shevketovich) into Russian allow us to conclude the dialogic relationship between “ours” and “theirs”. On the one hand, Karimova’s translations are characterized by an adequate transfer of the Tatar poetics into Russian; on the other hand - by their entry into the modern Russian literary context, which leads to a change in the semantic and emotional-evaluative content of Suleyman’s works. Karimova’s original work is an example of harmony and complementarity of different cultural layers. The lyrical heroine of the poetess shows involvement both in her native (Tatar) and Russian culture, bearing the features of transcultural consciousness. In the course of the analysis of the poetess’s translations and lyrical works, we concluded that Karimova’s original lyrical poetry overcomes different cultural meanings, the poetess’s translations become an example of the original work concretization, the transformation of the emotional and semantic component of the text. The article establishes the identification of the poetess’s translated works with the forms familiar to Russian literature.