"We really need you, Bandera scumbags...": the space of "heroes" and meanings in Pavel Arye's play "Glory to Heroes"

Бондарева, Олена Євгенівна (2024) "We really need you, Bandera scumbags...": the space of "heroes" and meanings in Pavel Arye's play "Glory to Heroes" Літературний процес: методологія, імена, тенденції (24). pp. 17-39. ISSN 2311-2433; 2412-2475

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Abstract

The article analyzes Pavel Arie's play Glory to the Heroes in the context of its theatrical versions and analytical and critical reception from the standpoint of the “war of memories” and “social wounds.” From the time this dramatic text was written to the time it is viewed against the backdrop of almost three years of full-scale Russian war in Ukraine and more than a decade of Russian aggression, the perception of its characters and the “personal truths” they represent has been significantly transformed. The deliberate caution of both the playwright himself and his theatrical interpreters (Stas Zhirkov, Oleksa Kravchuk, Viacheslav Zhyla, Anatoliy Levchenko, Alla Sokolenko) in working with the semantic field of Ukrainian civic identity is indicative, the desire to voice the existence of different historical memories in contemporary Ukraine, but at the same time demonstrate the absence of a search for their convergence, which is camouflaged under the intention to go beyond “politics” and pay special attention to the “humanity” of the characters, regardless of which political camp each of them belongs to. As a result, there is not a single “exemplary human” figure in the play, and the unresolved problems of the confrontation between the elderly “political” antagonists are inherited by their children and grandchildren and cement new transgenerational personal and social traumas. In the ending, it seems that physical death seems to reconcile the irreconcilable enemies in life, as they walk side by side in the postmortem without weapons. At the same time, the death of both characters leaves all the questions raised in the play open, the transgenerational wounds unhealed, and the fighters for Ukrainian independence, who were stigmatized by the Soviet regime, unrehabilitated.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	драма; війна пам’ятей; транспоколіннєва травма; суспільні рани; громадянська ідентичність; актуальний театр
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Erih Plus Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет української філології, культури і мистецтва > Кафедра української літератури, компаративістики і грінченкознавства
Depositing User:	Олена Бондарева Бондарева
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2025 11:09
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2025 11:09
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50843

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