Neither Requiem, nor Stabat Mater
Anna Akhmatova’s Mother as a Figure of Collective Defiance in Requiem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10759367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniela Kukrechtová (Emerson College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 290-310 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-1861 • E-ISSN: 2161-6302 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/soundings.105.3.0290 |
| OpenAlex | W4389634545 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In her long poem Requiem Anna Akhmatova addresses her most horrific years during the Stalinist regime, when her son was imprisoned and she was waiting, along with hundreds of grief-stricken women, to learn what sentence her loved one would receive. But Akhmatova employs voice to stage a seemingly compliant muted figure of maternal suffering that, most importantly, talks back. While acknowledging the private suffering of a bereaved mother, the poet expresses the need to write about the experience. Indeed, the aim of Requiem was to offer testimony, rather than a consolation, in the form of an active gesture of voice against silence and voicelessness
Aesthetics · Art · Consolation · Gesture · Grief · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Silence · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |