Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
World Literature and National Literatures

Anti-Modernist Narrative  Colonial Chronology of Psychological Oppression and Its Consequences

Tanar Paichadze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • Modernism,
  • Epoch,
  • Colonial policy,
  • Georgian literature

Abstract

For the Soviet ideology, the modernist methodology, worldview, and theories werabsolutely unacceptable from the beginning.
This policy of non-acceptance was distinguished by its strategy and characteristics and at different stages which was characterized by duality of the position, positive and negative perception of the problem.
1. By positive tendency we mean the fact that Modernism and its directions were the complete systems, it was considered as the result – the “ready-made model” “inserted” into Georgian creative space.
2. Negative perspective of the perception of the problem was more radical. According to it, avantgardism was considered in Georgian culture as an artifi cial turn for demonstrating style a