Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 295010 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leena Kurvet-Käosaar |
| PRENOMES | Leena |
| SOBRENOME | Kurvet-Käosaar |
| ASSINATURA | KURVET-KÄOSAAR L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Estonian Literary Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8920-3837 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Versatile Vernacular Genre
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Families
This articles reflects the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the everyday lives of children and their families in Estonia during lockdown in spring 2020 and 2021. The data corpus is based on diaries compiled by children during the first lockdown in 2020 for a collection at the Estonian Literary Museum, and on a series of semi-structured interviews with children documenting their experiences during lockdown in spring 2021. The study draws on lit…
Is the World Still There
"Is the World Still There?"Estonian Lockdown Diaries The Year in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (bio) and Maarja Hollo (bio) Mulle meenub Ilon Wiklandi autobiograafiline lasteraamat „Pikk-pikk teekond", kus teise maailmasõja ajal jooksis laps hommikuti vaatama, kas maailm on veel alles. Mina vaatan piltlikult öeldes samuti, kas maailm on veel alles! Alles ta on, aga iga päevaga läheb olukord kõhedust tekitavamaks küll. 1 (K. R. 1) [I remembered an …
Introduction
Bringing into focus the ways of how to approach trauma instead of defining the object of research is becoming increasingly important. This also indicates that the range of approaches to trauma that informs cultural inquiry is widening, and is moving away from one singular paradigm posited as universal. Trauma scholars have demonstrated, on the one hand, the importance of particular experiences, specific cases, individual features of experiencing,…
Life Writing in Relational Modes
Life Writing in Relational ModesThe Year in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (bio) and Maarja Hollo (bio) A glance at some of the canonical works of life writing in Estonia, such as August Kitzberg's Ühe vana "tuuletallaja" noorpõlve mälestused (1924) or Jaan Kross's two-volume Kallid kaasteelised (2000, 2008), reveals the prominence of "a relational model of identity, developed collaboratively with others" (Eakin, How Our Lives 57).1 What makes rela…
Towards New Methodologies in Migration and Diaspora Studies
The introduction to the second part of the special issue, titled "On the Move: Migration and Diasporas", focuses on current methodological advances in the field, in particular on mixed-methods approaches and methods for studying digital diasporas as well as some related conceptual concerns, for example, the reemergence and critical revision of the concept of cosmopolitanism. The relevance of the contributions of the current issue to larger tenden…
Conceptual Alignments and Debates in the Study of Mobility and Migration
The introduction to the first part of the special issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, titled "On the Move: Migration and Diasporas", situates the articles included in the issue within theoretical discussions of significant factors that have influenced population movements, formation of diaspora communities, and diversification of the transnational life style during the past decades. The introduction discusses the genealogy of the c…
Situating Narratives of Migration and Diaspora
The idea of the special issue â Narrating Migration and Diasporaâ grew out of the current situation in the world: the word â migrationâ often accompanied by the word â crisesâ , reaches us every day via various media channels. During the last decades the world has been increasingly defined by mobility and transnationality. To interpret and analyze these processes, international scholars from different fields focus on the aspects such as sources a…
‘A Spatially Scattered Being’
The current article focuses on two works of life writing by Baltic exiles: Geography and the Art of Life (2004) by Edmunds ValdemÄ rs BunkÅ¡e and Otsekui tÃμlkes. Teema variatsioonidega [As if in translation. A theme with variations] (2005) by Käbi Laretei. In both works the construction of subjectivity relies, to an important extent, on acts of self-emplacement that proceed via an engagement with different places, landscapes and trajectories of…
Life Writing's Coming of Age
Life Writing's Coming of AgeThe Year in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (bio) and Maarja Hollo (bio) In a 2011 overview of prose fiction in Estonia, Jan Kaus, a well-known Estonian novelist and literary critic "cautiously propose[s]" that "life writing may be past its prime" ("Mina ja maailm" 411). Since in annual overviews of literary output, discussions of life writing never appear independently (as life writing is not regarded to be of sufficient…
The Archive
Euroopa-ihalusest taasiseseisvusperioodi autobiograafiates / European Identifications in Post-Soviet Estonian Life Writing
Teesid: Artikkel käsitleb Euroopat kui identiteedi ja minaduse sõlmpunkti ja enesevahenduse mõõdet kolmes omaelulookirjutuslikus teoses, mille autoritel on väljapaistev positsioon eesti (kirjandus)kultuuris: Jaan Krossi „Kallid kaasteelised“ (2003a, 2008), Jaan Kaplinski „Isale“ (2003) ja Tõnu Õnnepalu „Flandria päevik“ (2007). Artikkel keskendub sellele, kuidas küsimused suhestumise trajektooridest Euroopa mäluruumiga haakuvad Krossi, Kaplinski …
The Epistolary Dynamics of Sisterhood Across the Iron Curtain
The article focuses on the correspondence between two Estonian sisters (the author's maternal grandmother and great aunt) across the Iron Curtain from 1956–89, offering an analysis of the capacity of the epistolary medium in maintaining an intimate bond between the sisters. Although deeply personal in nature, the dynamic of the correspondence is nevertheless shaped by larger historical and sociocultural forces, including censorship. The analysis …
Private Lives, Intimate Readings
In any attempt to report on the life of another, or even one's own life, an inescapable ethical dilemma arises that relates to entering intensely private areas of experience and presenting intimate
Is that Hunger Haunting the Stove?”
This article provides an analysis of the ways in which food has been thematized in the deportation narratives of Baltic women (primarily narratives of the 1941 mass deportations). Based on a posthumously published diary of an Estonian woman who died in her deportation location in 1945, the well-known deportation memoir of Lithuanian woman Dalia Grinkevičiūtė as well as a number of deportation stories of Baltic women collected and published in the…
Estonian Life Writing of the 2000s as a Continuity Over the Post-Soviet Period
A distinctive feature of the (literary) culture of the 2000s is a sudden increase in the publication of works of life writing in different genres. Although life writing as a phenomenon has received considerably more critical attention in recent years, it has not yet settled within the literary canon, and theoretical debates concerning its diverse textual practises are still in initial phases. The current article provides an overview of Estonian l…
Saatesõna tõlkele. Foreword to the translation
Lejeune'i (s 1938) "Autobiograafiline leping", 2 mille esimene peatükk Tanel Lepsoo tõlkes käesolevas erinumbris esmakordselt eesti lugejani jõuab, on autobiograafiauuringute üks keskseid teoreetilisi käsitlusi, millel on olnud oluline roll autobiograafiliste tekstide uurimise legitimeerimisel kirjandusteaduse osana.Sellisena kuulub "Autobiograafiline leping" valdkonna teatud arengufaasi ning selles väljendatud seisukohtade vaidlustamine on olnud…
Mõistete rägastikus
The introductory article provides a conceptual background of the special issue of Methis focusing on the role of “life writing” (omaelulookirjutus) in Estonian cultural history, examining it from the perspective of different disciplines and theoretical and critical frameworks. Functioning as an umbrella term for the issue, omaelulookirjutus is largely a synonym for the term “life writing”. While referring, in its widest usage, to a diverse body o…
The Situation of Translation/Translation Situation in Käbi Laretei's Life Writings
The article offers a discussion on life writings of Käbi Laretei, an exile Estonian author and in her day a world-famous concert pianist, whose self-representational narratives make visible the emergence of her textual subjectivity in the both fluid and rigid spaces in-between cultures and languages, always fluctuating between the two axes of speech and sound. One work, Otsekui tõlkes ( As if in Translation , 2004), that is also the focus of the …
Other things happened to women”
The article offers an analysis of two autobiographical novels about World War Two and the years following it: A Sound of the Past (“Mineviku heli”, 1992) by Käbi Laretei and A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule (1995), focusing on the representation of the impact of traumatic exile experience on gendered national identity of the authors/narrators and their positions in their respective exile communities. Both works stand out among the numerous Balti…
Estonian Life Writing of the 2000s as a Continuity Over the Post-Soviet Period
A distinctive feature of the (literary) culture of the 2000s is a sudden increase in the publication of works of life writing in different genres. Although life writing as a phenomenon has received considerably more critical attention in recent years, it has not yet settled within the literary canon, and theoretical debates concerning its diverse textual practises are still in initial phases. The current article provides an overview of Estonian l…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Families
This articles reflects the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the everyday lives of children and their families in Estonia during lockdown in spring 2020 and 2021. The data corpus is based on diaries compiled by children during the first lockdown in 2020 for a collection at the Estonian Literary Museum, and on a series of semi-structured interviews with children documenting their experiences during lockdown in spring 2021. The study draws on lit…
The Epistolary Dynamics of Sisterhood Across the Iron Curtain
The article focuses on the correspondence between two Estonian sisters (the author's maternal grandmother and great aunt) across the Iron Curtain from 1956–89, offering an analysis of the capacity of the epistolary medium in maintaining an intimate bond between the sisters. Although deeply personal in nature, the dynamic of the correspondence is nevertheless shaped by larger historical and sociocultural forces, including censorship. The analysis …
Private Lives, Intimate Readings
In any attempt to report on the life of another, or even one's own life, an inescapable ethical dilemma arises that relates to entering intensely private areas of experience and presenting intimate
Other things happened to women”
The article offers an analysis of two autobiographical novels about World War Two and the years following it: A Sound of the Past (“Mineviku heli”, 1992) by Käbi Laretei and A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule (1995), focusing on the representation of the impact of traumatic exile experience on gendered national identity of the authors/narrators and their positions in their respective exile communities. Both works stand out among the numerous Balti…
The Archive
Is that Hunger Haunting the Stove?”
This article provides an analysis of the ways in which food has been thematized in the deportation narratives of Baltic women (primarily narratives of the 1941 mass deportations). Based on a posthumously published diary of an Estonian woman who died in her deportation location in 1945, the well-known deportation memoir of Lithuanian woman Dalia Grinkevičiūtė as well as a number of deportation stories of Baltic women collected and published in the…
Other things happened to women”
The article offers an analysis of two autobiographical novels about World War Two and the years following it: A Sound of the Past (“Mineviku heli”, 1992) by Käbi Laretei and A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule (1995), focusing on the representation of the impact of traumatic exile experience on gendered national identity of the authors/narrators and their positions in their respective exile communities. Both works stand out among the numerous Balti…
The Situation of Translation/Translation Situation in Käbi Laretei's Life Writings
The article offers a discussion on life writings of Käbi Laretei, an exile Estonian author and in her day a world-famous concert pianist, whose self-representational narratives make visible the emergence of her textual subjectivity in the both fluid and rigid spaces in-between cultures and languages, always fluctuating between the two axes of speech and sound. One work, Otsekui tõlkes ( As if in Translation , 2004), that is also the focus of the …
Saatesõna tõlkele. Foreword to the translation
Lejeune'i (s 1938) "Autobiograafiline leping", 2 mille esimene peatükk Tanel Lepsoo tõlkes käesolevas erinumbris esmakordselt eesti lugejani jõuab, on autobiograafiauuringute üks keskseid teoreetilisi käsitlusi, millel on olnud oluline roll autobiograafiliste tekstide uurimise legitimeerimisel kirjandusteaduse osana.Sellisena kuulub "Autobiograafiline leping" valdkonna teatud arengufaasi ning selles väljendatud seisukohtade vaidlustamine on olnud…
Mõistete rägastikus
The introductory article provides a conceptual background of the special issue of Methis focusing on the role of “life writing” (omaelulookirjutus) in Estonian cultural history, examining it from the perspective of different disciplines and theoretical and critical frameworks. Functioning as an umbrella term for the issue, omaelulookirjutus is largely a synonym for the term “life writing”. While referring, in its widest usage, to a diverse body o…
Estonian Life Writing of the 2000s as a Continuity Over the Post-Soviet Period
A distinctive feature of the (literary) culture of the 2000s is a sudden increase in the publication of works of life writing in different genres. Although life writing as a phenomenon has received considerably more critical attention in recent years, it has not yet settled within the literary canon, and theoretical debates concerning its diverse textual practises are still in initial phases. The current article provides an overview of Estonian l…
The Epistolary Dynamics of Sisterhood Across the Iron Curtain
The article focuses on the correspondence between two Estonian sisters (the author's maternal grandmother and great aunt) across the Iron Curtain from 1956–89, offering an analysis of the capacity of the epistolary medium in maintaining an intimate bond between the sisters. Although deeply personal in nature, the dynamic of the correspondence is nevertheless shaped by larger historical and sociocultural forces, including censorship. The analysis …
Private Lives, Intimate Readings
In any attempt to report on the life of another, or even one's own life, an inescapable ethical dilemma arises that relates to entering intensely private areas of experience and presenting intimate
Is that Hunger Haunting the Stove?”
This article provides an analysis of the ways in which food has been thematized in the deportation narratives of Baltic women (primarily narratives of the 1941 mass deportations). Based on a posthumously published diary of an Estonian woman who died in her deportation location in 1945, the well-known deportation memoir of Lithuanian woman Dalia Grinkevičiūtė as well as a number of deportation stories of Baltic women collected and published in the…
The Archive
Euroopa-ihalusest taasiseseisvusperioodi autobiograafiates / European Identifications in Post-Soviet Estonian Life Writing
Teesid: Artikkel käsitleb Euroopat kui identiteedi ja minaduse sõlmpunkti ja enesevahenduse mõõdet kolmes omaelulookirjutuslikus teoses, mille autoritel on väljapaistev positsioon eesti (kirjandus)kultuuris: Jaan Krossi „Kallid kaasteelised“ (2003a, 2008), Jaan Kaplinski „Isale“ (2003) ja Tõnu Õnnepalu „Flandria päevik“ (2007). Artikkel keskendub sellele, kuidas küsimused suhestumise trajektooridest Euroopa mäluruumiga haakuvad Krossi, Kaplinski …
Situating Narratives of Migration and Diaspora
The idea of the special issue â Narrating Migration and Diasporaâ grew out of the current situation in the world: the word â migrationâ often accompanied by the word â crisesâ , reaches us every day via various media channels. During the last decades the world has been increasingly defined by mobility and transnationality. To interpret and analyze these processes, international scholars from different fields focus on the aspects such as sources a…
‘A Spatially Scattered Being’
The current article focuses on two works of life writing by Baltic exiles: Geography and the Art of Life (2004) by Edmunds ValdemÄ rs BunkÅ¡e and Otsekui tÃμlkes. Teema variatsioonidega [As if in translation. A theme with variations] (2005) by Käbi Laretei. In both works the construction of subjectivity relies, to an important extent, on acts of self-emplacement that proceed via an engagement with different places, landscapes and trajectories of…
Life Writing's Coming of Age
Life Writing's Coming of AgeThe Year in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (bio) and Maarja Hollo (bio) In a 2011 overview of prose fiction in Estonia, Jan Kaus, a well-known Estonian novelist and literary critic "cautiously propose[s]" that "life writing may be past its prime" ("Mina ja maailm" 411). Since in annual overviews of literary output, discussions of life writing never appear independently (as life writing is not regarded to be of sufficient…
Life Writing in Relational Modes
Life Writing in Relational ModesThe Year in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (bio) and Maarja Hollo (bio) A glance at some of the canonical works of life writing in Estonia, such as August Kitzberg's Ühe vana "tuuletallaja" noorpõlve mälestused (1924) or Jaan Kross's two-volume Kallid kaasteelised (2000, 2008), reveals the prominence of "a relational model of identity, developed collaboratively with others" (Eakin, How Our Lives 57).1 What makes rela…
Towards New Methodologies in Migration and Diaspora Studies
The introduction to the second part of the special issue, titled "On the Move: Migration and Diasporas", focuses on current methodological advances in the field, in particular on mixed-methods approaches and methods for studying digital diasporas as well as some related conceptual concerns, for example, the reemergence and critical revision of the concept of cosmopolitanism. The relevance of the contributions of the current issue to larger tenden…
Conceptual Alignments and Debates in the Study of Mobility and Migration
The introduction to the first part of the special issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, titled "On the Move: Migration and Diasporas", situates the articles included in the issue within theoretical discussions of significant factors that have influenced population movements, formation of diaspora communities, and diversification of the transnational life style during the past decades. The introduction discusses the genealogy of the c…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Families
This articles reflects the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the everyday lives of children and their families in Estonia during lockdown in spring 2020 and 2021. The data corpus is based on diaries compiled by children during the first lockdown in 2020 for a collection at the Estonian Literary Museum, and on a series of semi-structured interviews with children documenting their experiences during lockdown in spring 2021. The study draws on lit…
Is the World Still There
"Is the World Still There?"Estonian Lockdown Diaries The Year in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (bio) and Maarja Hollo (bio) Mulle meenub Ilon Wiklandi autobiograafiline lasteraamat „Pikk-pikk teekond", kus teise maailmasõja ajal jooksis laps hommikuti vaatama, kas maailm on veel alles. Mina vaatan piltlikult öeldes samuti, kas maailm on veel alles! Alles ta on, aga iga päevaga läheb olukord kõhedust tekitavamaks küll. 1 (K. R. 1) [I remembered an …
Introduction
Bringing into focus the ways of how to approach trauma instead of defining the object of research is becoming increasingly important. This also indicates that the range of approaches to trauma that informs cultural inquiry is widening, and is moving away from one singular paradigm posited as universal. Trauma scholars have demonstrated, on the one hand, the importance of particular experiences, specific cases, individual features of experiencing,…
The Versatile Vernacular Genre
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