Українська література: між Україною і літературою
- Institution: Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка
- Year of publication: 2015
- Source: Show
- Pages: 273-287
- DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/pomi201519
- PDF: pomi/01/pomi201519.pdf
Ukrainian Literature: Between Ukraine and Literature.
This article is dedicated to the anthology Solomon’s Red Star (2012), which contains 25 essays describing 25 administrative regions of contemporary Ukraine. Different rhetorical strategies presented by authors are analyzed from a postcolonial perspective. The most important elements of the postcolonial narrative are a notion of a literature as a mirror of reality and understanding of a narrative as a kind of a travelogue, when the author acts as a guide and the reader is supposed to be a tourist. A narrative is mostly past-oriented but not future-oriented and the main challenge to the authors is that a history is neither coherent nor complete. A post-soviet stereotype-based narrative is opposed by a mythological poetics as a means of creating a new cultural identity.