Reviving the Memory of the Holodomor in Oksana Zabuzhko’s Novel “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets”

Гайдаш, Анна Владиславівна (2024) Reviving the Memory of the Holodomor in Oksana Zabuzhko’s Novel “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets” Studia Philologica, 23 (2). с. 202-210. ISSN 2412-2491

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Анотація

The article studies how the memory of Holodomor is restored in contemporary literature, using the example of the largest novel by Oksana Zabuzhko, a powerful and influential novelist whose image as an ambassador of Ukrainian culture worldwide is recognizable. Restoring the memory of the Holodomor genocide is relevant not only for contemporary Ukrainians but also for the entire democratic world, as Russia continues to use grain control as a weapon. The article aims to demonstrate the formation of the Great Famine theme in the novel using the imbrication technique. To achieve this goal, historical findings are employed, and a close reading method is used. The analyzed historical sources (A.Applebaum, A.Kozytskyi, R.Conquest, L.Lawton, S.Plohy, O.Subtelny) prove that in addition to the terrible suffering that killed people of all ages, the traditional Ukrainian lifestyle in the countryside was destroyed, the genetic fund of the people was violated, which caused irreversible psychological changes in the Ukrainian (self)awareness. Literary scholars (V.Dibrova, O.Pukhonska, N.Tymoshchuk, O.Wallo) recapitulate that the deliberate silencing of the Holodomor by the Soviet regime and government control created an equally deep trauma not only for the survivors but also for the next generations of Ukrainians, which is reflected in fictional texts. The article’s author detects and interprets the episodes in which the novel’s theme of the Great Famine is manifested. Although the action unfolds in later times, and the Holodomor does not pertain to the text’s main events, the trauma of starvation as a factor in the reality of the characters, and thus of the entire Ukrainian society, is salient in all subsequent historical stages. In “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets,” reflections on the Holodomor genocide take the form of characters’ memories and constitute rhetoric of post-memory. Though episodical fragments, the abandoned past is revived and constitutes the present. The author builds the mystical interaction between the Ukrainian generations.

Тип елементу :	Стаття
Ключові слова:	The Holodomor; famine; starvation; genocide; secrets; Oksana Zabuzhko; memory.
Типологія:	Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Підрозділи:	Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра германської філології
Користувач, що депонує:	професор Анна Владиславівна Гайдаш
Дата внесення:	18 Груд 2024 13:21
Останні зміни:	18 Груд 2024 13:21
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50700

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