The "boarding" space as a metametaphor of dislike, mental peripherality and postcolonial uncertainty in modern Ukrainian literature

Бондарева, Олена Євгенівна (2023) The "boarding" space as a metametaphor of dislike, mental peripherality and postcolonial uncertainty in modern Ukrainian literature Bibliotekarz podlaski (2). pp. 191-211. ISSN 1640-7806; 2544-8900

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Abstract

The concept of “boarding school” in modern Ukrainian prose is considered as a metametaphorical space and a multi-level topos, as a complex semantic structure related to the semantic fields of totalitarian/post-totalitarian trauma, as well as personal, family, and social memory. The material of the research are novels of Tanya Malyarchuk “Oblivion”, of Victoria Amelina “November Syndrome”, of Serhiy Zhadan “Boarding”. The concept of “boarding” in modern Ukrainian literature significantly expands and complements the topos of homelessness, augments it with new postcolonial/decolonial meanings. All three authors consider the space of the boarding school as a classic model of internal colonization, which is based on strategies of humiliation, humiliation, restrictions on human freedom, cancellation of human dignity, deprivation of identifying features. Accordingly, the artists build their own versions of liberation from this colonial space – escape, false liberation and falling into a new dependence, the hero’s return to his family under the influence of an extreme situation and his acquisition of a real Home. In this way, Ukrainian postcolonial literary writing captures and programs the meanings of “coming of age” of the Ukrainian political nation, related to the work of generational memory and overcoming transgenerational traumas.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: topos; identity; memory culture; transgenerational trauma; postcolonial strategies
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Erih Plus
Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Index Copernicus
Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Scopus
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет української філології, культури і мистецтва > Кафедра української літератури, компаративістики і грінченкознавства
Depositing User: Олена Бондарева Бондарева
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 10:20
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2023 08:37
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/46286

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