Alexei Marinat: nevoia conservării memoriei Gulagului [Articol]

Abstract

The study reveals the increased interest in digitized memoirs and diaries, presenting the various forms in which the confessional literature of detention is circulated through new electronic and multimedia technologies. Special attention is paid to preserving traumatic memory in its original form, rehabilitating the collective memory of individuals under the oppressive Soviet regime, and reflecting the concepts of trans media storytelling and digital humanities. Essentially, nothing can more successfully combine the strengths of research practices in history, memorial studies, and computational linguistics than digital humanities, which make available to the general public a fundamental approach to the research and critical study of Gulag literature. From the point of view of the materialization of the narrative and the narrative flow, the perspective through which we examine the relationship between Alexei Marinat’s memoirs and digital technology is that of digital humanities, which engages, in addition to the critical practice of contextualizing the text, the exercise of textualizing the context, reading the events of history and culture, as part of literary and artistic production. In this context, digital technologies, along with the increased availability of electronic storage media, have allowed the Bessarabian memorialist to digitize a consistent page from the vast history and literature of Gulag detention.