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- Institution: Київський університет імені Бориса Грінченка (Kijów, Ukraina)
- Year of publication: 2017
- Source: Show
- Pages: 27-50
- DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/PPUSN.2017.03.03
- PDF: pomi/03/pomi201703.pdf
How to Represent War.
The hybrid warfare going on in Donbass has had consequences on the informational and cultural spheres in Ukraine. It is a war for influence where Ukraine cannot adequately confront Russia because it does not have the necessary recourses and a developed media culture. The number of literary works about the war published in the last few years show that Ukrainian writers want to challenge the discourse on war. Between 2014 and 2016 numerous novels, stories, essays, reports, and poems were published by such writers as Halyna Vdovychenko, Yevhen Polozhiy, Sergei Lozko, and Vladyslav Ivchenko. These authors try to show all the horror of the war and the changing attitudes and consciousness of Ukrainians. The issue of forming a new Ukrainian collective identity is reflected in contemporary literature.