Mises en scène d'une identité non slave de Russie : le théâtre komi dans un monde russe en mutation

The Komi, a Finno-Ugric people of North-Eastern Europe, have been part of Russia since the 14th century. After the Revolution, the Civil War led to the creation of a Bolshevik Komi State (1921), which later became an autonomous subject of Soviet Russia. Among intellectuals who remained in Russia, the 1920s and 1930s were times of optimism and creativity ; the national language became state language, and literature flourished in all genres. Later, with the 1990 declaration of sovereignty, the Komi State was to be transformed ; but after decades of russification, demographic and social realities were quite different from those of the time of the 1917 Revolution. Undoubtedly Komi identity came particularly forward in these two decisive periods, and bilingualism played an important role in this process, though in different proportions. By exploring a literary genre with a wider potential audience - drama -, I intend to present some aspects of contemporary Komi cultural identity, especially in relation to their territory and language.Cagnoli Sébastien. Mises en scène d'une identité non slave de Russie : le théâtre komi dans un monde russe en mutation. In: Revue Russe n°36, 2011. Monde russe et identités. pp. 101-113