Internal Emigration on the Example of Poetic Texts by Besik Kharanauli and Lia Sturua

Abstract

 Internal emigration – as a form of personal, cultural, and aesthetic resistance – plays an important role in the structure and content of both Besik Kharanauli's and Lia Sturua's poetry.

 In the reality of the Soviet totalitarian space, when physical emigration was practically impossible, poetic texts served as an "internal escape," a linguistic and conscious escape from ideological imprisonment. This phenomenon clearly resonates in the works of American poets, who, despite their different historical and social experiences, often appealed to the aesthetics of fear and inward-directed play.